Numbers 30:15

But if the husband, upon hearing it, remains silent, and he delays judgment until another day, whatever she had vowed or promised, she shall repay, because when he first heard it, he remained silent.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

14If she has vowed or bound herself by oath, in order to afflict her soul by fasting, or by abstaining from other things, it shall be for the arbitration of her husband, as to whether or not she may do it.

16And if he contradicted it only sometime after he had known about it, he shall bear his iniquity.”

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Cross References

Numbers 30:5whatever she has promised or swore, she shall complete in deed.

Numbers 30:12if her husband heard it and remained silent, and he did not contradict the promise, she shall repay what she had promised.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 30:4-16

3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord , and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; 4 And 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. 5 But 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… Read the whole commentary →

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