Numbers 30

Modern

Literal

Laws about Vows

¹Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:

¹And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the thing that YHWH has commanded:

²If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.^a

²If a man makes a vow to YHWH or swears an oath to bind by some binding obligation on his soul, he shall not break his word; according to all that proceeds out of his mouth, he shall do.

³And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

³Or if a woman makes a vow to YHWH and binds herself by some binding obligation while in the house of her father in her youth,

⁴and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

⁴and her father hears her vow and the binding obligation by which she has bound on her soul, and her father keeps silent to her, all her vows shall stand, and every binding obligation that she has bound upon her soul shall stand.

⁵But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

⁵But if her father forbids her on the day that he hears, then any of her vows or her binding obligations by which she has bound on her soul shall not stand; and YHWH will release her, because her father forbade her.

⁶If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,

⁶And if she is at all unto a husband, and her vows are on her, or a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound on her soul,

⁷and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

⁷and her husband hears it on the day that he hears, and makes no response to her, her vows shall stand, and her binding obligations by which she bound on her soul shall stand.

⁸But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.

⁸But if, on the day that he hears it, her husband forbids her, he makes void her vow that she took and the rash utterance of her lips by which she bound on her soul, and YHWH will release her.

⁹Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

⁹And a vow of a widow or a divorced woman, any by which she has bound upon her soul shall stand against her.

¹⁰If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

¹⁰And if she has vowed in the house of her husband or bound by a binding obligation upon her soul with an oath,

¹¹and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

¹¹and her husband heard it and made no response to her and did not overrule her, all her vows shall stand, and every binding obligation by which she bound on her soul shall stand.

¹²But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.

¹²But if her husband surely has nullified them on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul, it shall not stand; her husband has made them void, and YHWH will release her.

¹³Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.^a

¹³Every vow, and every sworn binding obligation to afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it or her husband may make it void.

¹⁴But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.

¹⁴And if her husband keeps silent to her from day to day, he confirms all her vows, or all the binding obligations that bind her; he confirms them because he surely remained silent to her on the day that he heard them.

¹⁵But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”

¹⁵But if he surely nullifies them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

¹⁶These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.

¹⁶These are the statutes that YHWH commanded Moses between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in the house of her father.