AMEN — so be it, truly: a one-word oath of assent, from the root aman, to be firm, whose other children are faithful, believed and a nurse. ⭐ Read across the archived text, the spoken word stands in twenty-four verses of the Hebrew Bible, and twelve of them are Deuteronomy 27:15–26, where all the people answer each of the Levites’ twelve curses with it. Before that chapter it is spoken once, by one person: the wife accused of adultery at Numbers 5:22 (already on these pages), Amen, amen. After it, Benaiah’s answer to David (1 Kings 1:36), Jeremiah’s to Hananiah (Jeremiah 28:6, already on these pages) and to a curse in Deuteronomy 27’s own shape (Jeremiah 11:5), the congregation’s at Nehemiah 5:13 and 8:6, the close of four of the five books of the Psalter (Psalms 41:14, 72:19, 89:53, 106:48 in the Hebrew numbering), and a name of God, the God of Amen, at Isaiah 65:16 (none of these yet on these pages). The formula and all the people shall say, Amen stands in twelve verses of the Hebrew Bible — eleven in Deuteronomy 27 and Psalm 106:48, which borrows it whole. ⚠ In the Greek of the New Testament the word turns round: at John 3:3 (already on these pages) Jesus opens a sentence with Amen, amen, I say to you, a response become a preface, and Revelation 3:14 makes it a title, these things says the Amen. ⚠ One witness on the two shelves translates it instead of transliterating: the Geneva reads ‘So be it’ twelve times in Deuteronomy 27; every other version on both shelves prints ‘Amen’ or «Amén». → first discussed at Deut 27:15