Numbers 30

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Numbers 30

¹Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded.

²When 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 bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

⁴and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

⁵But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord will forgive her, because her father disallowed 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,

⁷and her husband hears it, and holds his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

⁸But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and 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,

¹¹and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and did not disallow her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

¹²But 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; and the Lord will forgive her.

¹³Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

¹⁴But if her husband altogether holds his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

¹⁵But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity."

¹⁶These 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.