THE BOOK OF NUMBERS

 

Numbers Chapter 30

1 ¶ And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing that the LORD has commanded.

2 If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a pledge; he shall not break his word, he must do whatever he has said.

3 ¶ If a woman also makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a pledge, while still in her father’s house in her youth;

4 And her father hears her vow, and the pledge by which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her: then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound her soul shall stand.

5 But if her father does not allow her on the day that he hears of it; none of her vows, or her pledges by which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

6 And if she had a husband, when she vowed, or said anything, by which she bound her soul;

7 And her husband heard it, and said nothing to her on the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she bound her soul shall stand.

8 But if her husband does not allow her on the day that he hears it; then he shall make the vow which she made, and that which she said with her lips, by which she bound her soul, void: and the LORD shall forgive her.

9 But every vow of a widow, and of a woman who is divorced, by which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

10 And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by a pledge with an oath;

11 And her husband heard it, and said nothing to her, and did not prohibit her: then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.

12 But if her husband has utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatever she said concerning her vows, or concerning the pledge of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.

13 Her husband may confirm, or make void, every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul that she makes.

14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day; then he confirms all her vows, or all her pledges, which are upon her: he confirms them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard them.

15 But if he shall in any way make them void after he hears of them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

16 These are the statutes, that the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, while yet in her youth in her father’s house.