Numbers 30

1Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the Israelites, “This is what Yahweh has commanded:

2If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind himself with a pledge, he must not break his word. He must do everything he has said.

3When a young woman still living in her father’s house makes a vow to Yahweh or binds herself with a pledge,

4and her father hears of her vow or the pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.

5But if her father forbids her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she has bound herself will stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.

6If she marries while her vows or a rash promise from her lips by which she has bound herself are still on her,

7and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day he hears it, then her vows will stand, and the pledges by which she has bound herself will stand.

8But if her husband forbids her on the day he hears of it, he cancels the vow that is on her and the rash promise from her lips by which she bound herself, and Yahweh will forgive her.

9Any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, will stand against her.

10If a woman living in her husband’s house makes a vow or binds herself with a pledge under oath,

11and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.

12But if her husband cancels them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or the pledge that bound her, will stand. Her husband has canceled them, and Yahweh will forgive her.

13Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn pledge to humble herself.

14But if her husband says nothing at all to her from one day to the next, he confirms all her vows or all the pledges that are on her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard of them.

15But if he cancels them some time after he has heard of them, he will bear her guilt.”

16These are the statutes that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning a man and his wife, and a father and his daughter while she is young and still living in her father’s house.