Numbers 30
30
Special Promises
1Moses spoke with all the leaders of the Israelite tribes and told them about these commands from the Lord:
2“If a man makes a special promise to the Lord or makes a promise with an oath, he must not break his promise. He must do everything he said he would do.
3“A young woman might still be living in her father’s house. And that young woman might make a special promise to give something to the Lord. 4If her father hears about the promise and agrees, the young woman must do what she promised. 5But if her father hears about the promise and does not agree, she is free from her promise. She does not have to do what she promised. Her father stopped her, so the Lord will forgive her.
6“A woman might make a special promise to give something to the Lord and then get married. 7If the husband hears about the promise and does not object, the woman must do what she promised. 8But if the husband hears about the promise and refuses to let her keep her promise, the wife does not have to do what she promised. Her husband broke the promise—he did not let her do what she said. So the Lord will forgive her.
9“A widow or a divorced woman might make a special promise. If she does, she must do exactly what she promised.
10“A married woman might make a promise to give something to the Lord. 11If her husband hears about the promise and lets her keep her promise, she must do exactly what she promised. She must give everything she promised. 12But if her husband hears about the promise and refuses to let her keep the promise, she does not have to do what she promised. It doesn’t matter what she promised to do; if her husband is against it, this ends her duty to do it. And the Lord will forgive her. 13A married woman might promise to give something to the Lord, or she might promise to do without something,#30:13 do without something Literally, “humble her soul.” Usually this means to make the body suffer in some way, such as by not eating food. or she might make some other special promise to God. The husband can stop any of these promises, and the husband can let her keep any of these promises. 14How does the husband let his wife keep her promises? If he hears about the promises and does not stop them, the woman must do exactly what she promised. 15But if the husband hears about the promises and stops them, he is responsible for breaking her promises.”#30:15 he … her promises Literally, “he carries her guilt.”
16These are the commands that the Lord gave to Moses. These are the commands about a man and his wife, and about a father and his daughter who is still young and living at home in her father’s house.
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Numbers 30
30
1And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is what Jehovah hath commanded. 2If a man vow a vow to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; according to all that hath gone out of his mouth shall he do.
3If a woman also vow a vow to Jehovah, and bind herself by a bond, in her father's house in her youth, 4and her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall be silent at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 5But if her father prohibited her in the day that he heard, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand; and Jehovah shall pardon her, because her father prohibited her. 6And if she have a husband, when she hath her vow upon her or ought that hath passed her lips wherewith she hath bound her soul, 7and her husband hear it and be silent at her in the day that he heareth it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 8But if her husband prohibit her on the day that he heareth it, and annul her vow which is upon her, and what hath passed her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul, then Jehovah shall pardon her. 9But the vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, — everything wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand against her. 10And if she have vowed in her husband's house, or have bound her soul by an oath with a bond, 11and her husband have heard it, and been silent at her, and hath not prohibited her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 12But if her husband have expressly annulled them on the day that he heard them, then nothing of that which is gone out of her lips as to her vows or the bond on her soul, shall stand: her husband hath annulled them; and Jehovah will pardon her. 13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband can establish it, or her husband can annul it. 14And if her husband be altogether silent at her from day to day, then he hath established all her vows or all her bonds which are upon her; he hath confirmed them, for he hath been silent at her in the day that he heard them. 15But if he in any way annul them after he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. 16These are the statutes, which Jehovah commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, in her youth in her father's house.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.