Numbers 30 :: King James Version (KJV)

The Law of Vows

Num 30:1And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

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Num 30:2If 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.

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Num 30:3If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

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Num 30:4And 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.

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Num 30:5But 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.

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Num 30:6And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

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Num 30:7And 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.

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Num 30:8But 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.

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Num 30:9But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

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Num 30:10And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

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Num 30:11And 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.

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Num 30:12But 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.

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Num 30:13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

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Num 30:14But 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.

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Num 30:15But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

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Num 30:16These 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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Numbers 30 :: King James Version (KJV)

The Law of Vows

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