Num 30:1 And Mosheh spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the
children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “This is the word which יהוה has commanded:
Num 30:2 “When a man vows a vow to יהוה, or swears an oath to bind
himself by some agreement, he does not break his word, he does according to
all that comes out of his mouth.
Num 30:3 “Or if a woman vows a vow to יהוה, and binds herself by some
agreement while in her father’s house in her youth,
Num 30:4 and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has
bound herself, and her father has kept silent towards her, then all her vows
shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself stands.
Num 30:5 “But if her father forbids her on the day that he hears, then none of
her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself stand. And יהוה
pardons her, because her father has forbidden her.
Num 30:6 “But if she at all belongs to a husband, while bound by her vows
or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself,
Num 30:7 and her husband hears it, and he has kept silent towards her on the
day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she
bound herself do stand.
Num 30:8 “But if her husband forbids her on the day that he hears it, then he
has nullified her vow which she vowed, and the rash utterance of her lips by
which she bound herself, and יהוה pardons her.
Num 30:9 “But any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has
bound herself, stands against her.
Num 30:10 “And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by
an agreement with an oath,
Num 30:11 and her husband heard it, and has kept silent towards her and did
not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which
she bound herself stands.
Num 30:12 “But if her husband clearly nullified them on the day he heard
them, then whatever came from her lips concerning her vows or concerning
the agreement binding her, it does not stand – her husband has nullified them,
and יהוה pardons her.
Num 30:13 “Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her being, let her
husband confirm it, or let her husband nullify it.
Num 30:14 “But if her husband is altogether silent at her from day to day,
then he confirms all her vows or all the agreements that bind her – he
confirms them, because he kept silent towards her on the day that he heard.
Num 30:15 “But if he nullifies them after he has heard, then he shall bear her
crookedness.”
Num 30:16 These are the laws which יהוה commanded Mosheh, between a
man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her
father’s house.
Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 30
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