Numbers 30

Revised Geneva Translation

30 Moses also spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has Commanded,

² ‘Whoever vows a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to bind himself by a bond, he shall not break his promise, but shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

³ ‘If a woman also vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, in her father’s house, in the time of her youth,

⁴ ‘and her father hears her vow and bond (with which she has bound herself), and her father holds his peace concerning her, then all her vows shall stand and every bond with which she has bound herself shall stand.

⁵ ‘But, if her father forbids her the same day that he hears all her vows and bonds with which she has bound herself, they shall not be of value and the LORD will forgive her, because her father forbade her.

⁶ ‘And if she has a husband when she vows or pronounces anything with her lips (with which she binds herself)—

⁷ ‘if her husband heard it and holds his peace concerning her the same day he hears it—then her vow shall stand and her bonds with which she binds herself shall stand in effect.

⁸ ‘But if her husband forbids her the same day that he hears it, then shall he make her vow which she has made (and that that she has pronounced with her lips, with which she bound herself) of no effect. And the LORD will forgive her.

⁹ ‘But every vow of a widow, and of she that is divorced (with which she has bound herself) shall stand in effect with her.

¹⁰ ‘And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself straightly with an oath,

¹¹ ‘and her husband has heard it and held his peace concerning her, not disallowing her, then all her vows shall stand. And every bond with which she bound herself shall stand in effect.

¹² ‘But if her husband voided them the same day that he heard them, nothing that proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her bonds shall stand in effect. Her husband has voided them. And the LORD will forgive her.

¹³ ‘Every vow and every oath or bond, made to humble the soul, her husband may establish it. Or, her husband may break it.

¹⁴ ‘But if her husband holds his peace concerning her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows and all her bonds which she has made. He has confirmed them because he held his peace concerning her the same day that he heard them.

¹⁵ ‘But if he breaks them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.’”

¹⁶ These are the Ordinances which the LORD Commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being young in her father’s house.