1 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel,
saying, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded. 2 When a man vows a
vow to Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond,
being in her father’s house, in her youth, 4 and 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. 5 But 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 Yahweh will forgive her, because her father
disallowed her. 6 If she be married to 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 hear it, and hold 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. 8 But if her husband disallow 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 Yahweh
will forgive her. 9 But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced,
even 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 bond
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; and Yahweh 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
altogether hold 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. 15 But if he shall
make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her
iniquity. 16 These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between
a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in
her father’s house.
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