Numbers 30:15

But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 vow and bind herself by oath, to afflict her soul by fasting, or abstinence from other things, it shall depend on the will of her husband, whether she shall do it, or not do it.

16But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.

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Cross References

Numbers 30:5Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.

Numbers 30:12If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever 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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