Numbers 30
30
Making Promises to the Lord
1The Lord told Moses to say to Israel's tribal leaders:
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Dt 23.21-23; Mt 5.33. When one of you men makes a promise to the Lord,#30.2 a promise to the Lord: Either the promise of a gift or the promise to do something. you must keep your word.
3Suppose a young woman who is still living with her parents makes a promise to the Lord. 4If her father hears about it and says nothing, she must keep her promise. 5But if he hears about it and objects, then she no longer has to keep her promise. The Lord will forgive her, because her father did not agree with the promise.
6-7Suppose a woman makes a promise to the Lord and then gets married. If her husband later hears about the promise but says nothing, she must do what she said, whether she meant it or not. 8But if her husband hears about the promise and objects, she no longer has to keep it, and the Lord will forgive her.
9Widows and divorced women must keep every promise they make to the Lord.
10Suppose a married woman makes a promise to the Lord. 11If her husband hears about the promise and says nothing, she must do what she said. 12But if he hears about the promise and does object, she no longer has to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her husband would not allow her to keep the promise. 13Her husband has the final say about any promises she makes to the Lord. 14If her husband hears about a promise and says nothing about it for a whole day, she must do what she said—since he did not object, the promise must be kept. 15But if he waits until the next day to stop her from keeping her promise, he is the one who must be punished.
16These are the laws that the Lord gave Moses about husbands and wives, and about young daughters who still live at home.
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Numbers 30
30
1So Moses instructed the Israelites exactly as the Lord had commanded him.
Validity and Annulment of Vows. 2Moses said to the heads of the Israelite tribes, “This is what the Lord has commanded: 3When a man makes a vow to the Lord or binds himself under oath to a pledge,#A vow…a pledge: here the former signifies the promise to dedicate either a person, an animal, or a thing or their equivalent to the sanctuary upon the fulfillment of some specified conditions (Lv 27:1–13); the latter signifies the assumption of either a positive or a negative obligation—that is, the promise either to do something or to abstain from something; cf. v. 14. he shall not violate his word, but must fulfill exactly the promise he has uttered.#Dt 23:22; Eccl 5:3–4.
4“When a woman makes a vow to the Lord, or binds herself to a pledge, while still in her father’s house in her youth, 5and her father learns of her vow or the pledge to which she bound herself and says nothing to her about it, then any vow or any pledge to which she bound herself remains valid. 6But if on the day he learns of it her father opposes her, then any vow or any pledge to which she bound herself becomes invalid; and the Lord will release her from it, since her father opposed her.
7“If she marries while under a vow or under a rash pledge to which she bound herself, 8and her husband learns of it, yet says nothing to her on the day he learns it, then the vows or the pledges to which she bound herself remain valid. 9But if on the day her husband learns of it he opposes her, he thereby annuls the vow she had made or the rash pledge to which she had bound herself, and the Lord will release her from it. 10(The vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, however, any pledge to which such a woman binds herself, is valid.)
11“If it is in her husband’s house#In her husband’s house: after her marriage. This contrasts with the case given in vv. 7–9. that she makes a vow or binds herself under oath to a pledge, 12and her husband learns of it yet says nothing to her to oppose her, then all her vows remain valid or any pledge to which she has bound herself. 13But if on the day he learns of them her husband annuls them, then whatever she has expressly promised in her vows or in her pledge becomes invalid; since her husband has annulled them, the Lord will release her from them.
14“Any vow or any pledge that she makes under oath to humble herself, her husband may either confirm or annul. 15But if her husband, day after day, says nothing at all to her, he thereby confirms all her vows or all the pledges incumbent upon her; he has confirmed them, because on the day he learned of them he said nothing to her. 16If, however, he annuls them#He annuls them: he prevents their fulfillment. Since he has first allowed the vows to remain valid, he can no longer annul them. some time after he first learned of them, he will be responsible for her guilt.”
17These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses concerning a husband and his wife, as well as a father and his daughter while she is still in her youth in her father’s house.
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