Numbers 30
1 Moses spoke to the Israelites in accordance with everything the LORD had commanded Moses.
2 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the Israelites: “This is what the LORD has commanded:
3 When a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath binding himself to an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do everything that has come from his mouth.
4 If a woman makes a vow to the LORD or binds herself to an obligation while she is in her father’s house, in her youth,
5 and her father hears about her vow and the obligation she has taken on, and says nothing to her, all her vows will stand, and every obligation she has taken on will stand.
6 But if her father forbids her on the day he hears about it, none of the vows or obligations she has taken on will stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father forbade her.
7 If she marries while her vows are still binding on her, or while a rash promise from her lips by which she bound herself to an obligation is still binding,
8 and her husband hears about it and says nothing to her on the day he hears, her vows will stand, and the obligations she has taken on will stand.
9 But if her husband forbids her on the day he hears, he nullifies the vow binding on her and the rash promise from her lips by which she bound herself to an obligation. The LORD will forgive her.
10 The vow of a widow or a divorced woman—whatever she has bound herself to—will remain binding on her.
11 If she made the vow in her husband’s house, or bound herself to an obligation with an oath,
12 and her husband heard about it and said nothing to her, and did not forbid her, all her vows will stand, and every obligation she has taken on will stand.
13 But if her husband explicitly nullifies them on the day he hears, nothing that came from her lips—her vows or the obligation she took on—will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will forgive her.
14 Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may confirm or her husband may nullify.
15 But if her husband says nothing to her from one day to the next, he confirms all her vows or all the obligations binding on her. He has confirmed them because he said nothing to her on the day he heard.
16 But if he nullifies them after he has heard, he will bear her guilt.”
17 These are the decrees the LORD commanded Moses concerning a man and his wife, and a father and his daughter in her youth, while she is in her father’s house.
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