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.
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 in her father's house.
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