Numbers 30:6 - Forerunner Commentary

Numbers 30:6

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.”

16 These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father’s house.

Verse Comparison: Numbers 30:6

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American Standard Version
And if she be `married' to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,

Amplified® Bible
And if she is married to a husband while her vows are upon her or she has bound herself by a rash utterance

Contemporary English Version
Suppose a woman makes a promise to the LORD and then gets married. If her husband later hears about the promise but says nothing, she must do what she said, whether she meant it or not.

Darby English Version
And if she have a husband, when she hath her vow upon her or ought that hath passed her lips wherewith she hath bound her soul,

Good News Bible
If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries,

King James Version
And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

New American Standard Bible
"However, if she should marry while under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself,

New International Version
"If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself

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

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"However, if she should marry while under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself,

Revised Standard Version
And if she is married to a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,

Young's Literal Translation
`And if she be at all to a husband, and her vows `are' on her, or a wrongful utterance `on' her lips, which she hath bound on her soul,

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