Vows
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📚And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is what the LORD has commanded. 2 📚If a man makes a vow 📖 to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a binding obligation, he must not break his word; he must do according to all that came out of his mouth. 3 “Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself with a binding obligation while she is in her father’s house in her youth, 4 and her father hears her vow, and her binding obligation with which she bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every binding obligation with which she bound her soul shall stand. 5 📚But if her father forbids her on the day that he hears it, not any of her vows or her binding obligations with which she bound her soul, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.
6 📚“And if she marries after she made vows, or rash statements from her lips, with which she bound her soul, 7 and her husband hears of it, and says nothing to her on the day that he hears it, then her vows will stand, and her binding obligations with which she bound her soul will stand. 8 📚But if her husband forbids her on the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which she made, and the rash statement that she made with her lips, with which she bound her soul; and the LORD will forgive her.
9 📚“But the vow of a widow, or of the divorced woman, with which she has bound her soul, will be binding on her.
10 “And if she made the vow, or bound her soul with a binding obligation by an oath, in her husband’s house, 11 and her husband heard it, and said nothing to her, and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every binding obligation with which she bound her soul shall stand. 12 📚But if her husband made them completely void on the day he heard them, then whatever came from her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the binding obligation of her soul, shall not stand; her husband made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. 13 📚Her husband may confirm or her husband may make void every vow, and every binding oath to humble the soul. 14 But if her husband says absolutely nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows, or all her binding obligations on her; he confirms them because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard them. 15 📚But if he makes them void some time after he has heard them, then he will bear her guilt”.
16 📚These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter who is still in her youth in her father’s house.