Leviticus 27:2
Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.
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Numbers 6:2Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;
Numbers 30:3\30:2\When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.
Deuteronomy 23:22But if you take no oath, there will be no sin.
Deuteronomy 23:24When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.
Judges 11:39And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,
1 Samuel 1:28So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 27:2-14
The Law Concerning Vows. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation. 3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even… Read the whole commentary →