“1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the
children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the LORD hath
commanded. 2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind
his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according
to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.”
“3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a
bond, [being] in her father’s house in her youth; 4 And her father hear
her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father
shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every
bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 5 But if her father
disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her
bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall
forgive her, because her father disallowed her. 6 And if she had at all
an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith
she bound her soul; 7 And her husband heard [it,] and held his peace at
her in the day that he heard [it]: then her vows shall stand, and her
bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 8 But if her husband
disallowed her on the day that he heard [it]; then he shall make her vow
which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she
bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her. 9 But
every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have
bound their souls, shall stand against her. 10 And if she vowed in her
husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; 11 And her
husband heard [it], and held his peace at her, [and] disallowed her not:
then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her
soul shall stand. 12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on
the day he heard [them; then] whatsoever proceeded out of her lips
concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not
stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband
may establish it, or her husband may make it void. 14 But if her husband
altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth
all her vows, or all her bonds, which [are] upon her: he confirmeth
them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard [them].
15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard
[them]; then he shall bear her iniquity. 16 These [are] the statutes,
which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the
father and his daughter, [being yet] in her youth in her father’s
house.” (Nu 30:1-16 AV)
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