Numbers 30

1 Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:

2 If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

3 And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

4 and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

5 But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

6 If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,

7 and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

8 But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.

9 Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

10 If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

11 and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

12 But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.

13 Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.

15 But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”

16 These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.

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.

2 And Moses spake unto the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is that the LORD hath commanded:

3 If any man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind up his soul, he shall not weaken his word, but shall do according to all that proceeded out of his mouth.

4 When a woman voweth a vow unto the LORD, and is joined together, because she is in her father's house, and in the magdalities;

5 And her vow and her covenant, which she hath made over her soul, shall come before her father, and he shall hold his peace: so shall all her vow be, and all her covenant, which she hath bound herself over her soul.

6 But if her father forbid her in the daytime, when he heareth it, there is no vow nor covenant, whereof she hath bound herself over her soul: and the LORD will be gracious unto her, because her father hath forbidden her.

7 But if she have a husband, and have a vow upon her, or if she escape out of her lips a covenant upon her soul;

8 And the man heareth it, and is silent that day: so is her vow and covenant, which she hath bound herself to for her soul.

9 And if her husband repent in the day when he heareth it, then her vow that she hath upon her is loosed, and the covenant that is gone out of her lips upon her soul: and the LORD will be gracious unto her.

10 The vow of a widow and an outcast: all that she bindeth herself about her soul shall be upon her.

11 If a man's servants pledge or bind themselves with an oath concerning his soul;

12 And the master of the house heareth it, and holdeth his peace, and forbeareth it not: so all the same vow, and all that he hath joined himself to, shall be for his soul.

13 But if the master of the house loose it in the day when he heareth it, it shall not be counted that which proceeded out of his lips, which he hath vowed, or that which he hath joined himself unto his soul: for the master of the house hath loosed it; and the LORD will be gracious unto him.

14 And all the vows and oaths to bind, to mortify the body, the master of the house may strengthen or weaken, so:

15 And when he shall hold his peace from day to day, he shall confirm all his vows and covenants that are upon him, because he held his peace in the day that he heard it.

16 But if he weaken it after he hath heard it, he shall bear the iniquity.

17 These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses between husband and wife, between father and daughter; because she is yet a maid in her father's house.