Numbers 30:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Numbers 30:3

The Law Concerning Vows

1 Then Moses spoke to ^athe heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded:

2 ^aIf a man makes a vow to the Lord, or ^bswears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall ^cdo according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

3 “Or if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth,

4 and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father¹ holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand.

5 But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the Lord will release her, because her father overruled her.

6 “If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself,

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

8 But if her husband ^aoverrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the Lord will release her.

9 “Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.

10 “If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath,

11 and her husband heard it, and made no response to her and did not overrule her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand.

12 But if her husband truly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it shall not stand; her husband has made them¹ void, and the Lord will release her.

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

14 Now if her husband makes no response whatever to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all the agreements that bind her; he confirms them, because he made no response to her on the day that he heard them.

15 But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.”

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American Standard Version
Also when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

Amplified® Bible
Also when a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father's house in her youth,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose a young woman who is still living with her parents makes a promise to the LORD.

Darby English Version
If a woman also vow a vow to Jehovah, and bind herself by a bond, in her father's house in her youth,

Good News Bible
When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to give something to the LORD or promises to abstain from something,

King James Version
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;

New American Standard Bible
"Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by an obligation in her father's house in her youth,

New International Version
"When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge

New King James Version
“Or if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth,

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by an obligation in her father's house in her youth,

Revised Standard Version
Or when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house, in her youth,

Young's Literal Translation
`And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,

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The Law Concerning Vows

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