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1 Moses spoke to
the heads of
the tribes of the
children of Israel,
saying, “This is
the thing which
the LORD has
commanded.
2 When
a man vows a vow
to the LORD,
or swears an oath
to bind his soul
with a bond, he
shall not break
his word. He
shall do according
to all
that proceeds out
of his mouth.
3 “Also,
when a woman vows
a vow to
the LORD and binds
herself by
a pledge, being in
her father’s house, in
her youth,
4 and
her father hears her
vow and her pledge
with which she
has bound her soul,
and her father says nothing
to her, then
all her vows
shall stand, and
every pledge with
which she has bound
her soul shall stand.
5 But if
her father forbids her
in the day that
he hears, none
of her vows
or of her pledges
with which she
has bound her soul,
shall stand. The
LORD will forgive
her, because
her father has forbidden
her.
6 “If
she has a husband,
while her vows
are on her,
or the rash utterance
of her lips with
which she has bound
her soul,
7 and
her husband hears it,
and says nothing to
her in the day
that he hears it;
then her vows
shall stand, and
her pledges with
which she has bound
her soul
shall stand.
8 But if
her husband forbids her
in the day
that he hears
it, then he makes
void her vow which
is on her
and the rash utterance
of her lips, with
which she has bound
her soul. The
LORD will forgive
her.
9 “But
the vow of
a widow, or of
her who
is divorced, everything with
which she has bound
her soul
shall stand against
her.
10 “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 didn’t
disallow her, then all
her vows
shall stand, and every pledge
with which
she bound her soul
shall stand.
12 But if
her husband made
them null and void
in the day that
he heard them,
then whatever proceeded
out of her lips
concerning her
vows, or
concerning the bond
of her soul,
shall not stand.
Her husband has
made them void.
The LORD
will 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 says nothing
to her from day
to day, then
he establishes all
her vows or
all her pledges
which are on
her. He has
established them,
because he said
nothing to her
in the day that
he heard them.
15 But
if he makes
them null and void
after he has
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 a father and
his daughter, being in
her youth, in
her father’s house.