Numbers 30

1And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him:

1And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

2And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:

2When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

3If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

3If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;

4If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow:

4If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.

5Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.

5But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

6But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it.

6And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;

7If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,

7If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

8The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.

8But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

9But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord will forgive her.

9But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.

10The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow.

10If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,

11If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow and by oath,

11And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.

12If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.

12But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

13But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful to her.

13Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her husband.

14If she vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will of her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it.

14But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her.

15But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace.

15But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

16But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.

16These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.

17These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father's house.

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