Remember and Keep Spoken in a Single Divine Utterance

"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain" (Exodus 20:7). The vain oath was also included in the general statement, as it says, "or a person who swears, uttering with the lips" (Leviticus 5:4), and yet Scripture singled it out from the general rule and was stringent with it, exempting it from the offering. I might say: just as it is exempt from the offering, so should it be exempt from lashes. Scripture therefore says, "You shall not take the name of the LORD": from the category of offering it departed, from the category of lashes it did not depart. "You shall not take the name of the LORD": why is it stated? Because it says, "and you shall not swear by My name falsely" (Leviticus 19:12). From that I know only that one may not swear; from where that one may not even accept upon himself to swear? Scripture says, "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God": until you have accepted to swear, I am a God to you; once you have accepted to swear, I am a judge to you. It is impossible to say "and He clears," since it already says "He will not clear," as above. Rabbi says: All that is from "You shall not take" and upward, repentance atones; from "You shall not take" and downward, and "You shall not take" with them, repentance suspends and the Day of Atonement atones. And what is from "You shall not take" and upward? The positive and negative commandments. From "You shall not take" and downward? Matters for which one is liable to death by the court, death at the hands of Heaven, excision at the hands of Heaven, the forty lashes, sin-offerings and guilt-offerings, and "You shall not take" is among them. "Remember" (Exodus 20:8) and "Keep" (Deuteronomy 5:12), the two were spoken in a single utterance. "Those who profane it shall surely be put to death" (Exodus 31:14) and "and on the Sabbath day two lambs" (Numbers 28:9), the two were spoken in a single utterance. "The nakedness of your brother's wife" (Leviticus 18:16) and "her brother-in-law shall come upon her" (Deuteronomy 25:5), the two in a single utterance. "You shall not wear shaatnez" (Deuteronomy 22:11) and "you shall make for yourself twisted fringes" (Deuteronomy 22:12), the two in a single utterance. "And every daughter who inherits a portion from the tribes of the children of Israel" (Numbers 36:8) and "so that no inheritance shall move from tribe to tribe" (Numbers 36:9), spoken in a single utterance, something it is impossible for flesh and blood to say, as it says, "One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard" (Psalms 62:12), "Is not My word like fire, says the LORD" (Jeremiah 23:29). "Remember" and "Keep": remember it from before and keep it from after. From here they said: we add from the profane onto the holy. A parable of a wolf that tears from before and from behind. Elazar ben Hananiah ben Hizkiah ben Guryon says: you shall remember it from the first day of the week, so that if a fine object comes your way you may set it aside for the sake of the Sabbath. Rabbi Yohanan says: do not count the days as others count, but count them for the sake of the Sabbath. "To sanctify it," with a blessing. From here they said: we sanctify over wine at its entrance. I have only the sanctification by day; from where the sanctification by night? Scripture says, "and you shall keep the Sabbath" (Exodus 31:14). I have only the Sabbath; from where the festivals? Scripture says, "these are the appointed times of the LORD" (Leviticus 23:4).