1 | And
Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel,
saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded. |
2 | If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or
swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he
shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. Mt 5:33 |
3 | If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD,
and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; |
4 | And her father hear her vow, and
her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace
at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound
her soul shall stand. |
5 |
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows,
or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD
shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her. |
6 | And if she had at all an husband, when
she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; |
7 | And her husband heard it,
and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall
stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. |
8 | But if her husband disallowed her on the
day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that
which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect:
and the LORD shall forgive her. |
9
| But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they
have bound their souls, shall stand against her. |
10 | And 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
disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she
bound her soul shall stand. |
12
| But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard
them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or
concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them
void; and the LORD shall 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 establisheth all her vows, or all her
bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her
in the day that he heard them. |
15
| But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath 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 the father and his daughter, being yet
in her youth |