Numbers 30:9

But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect : the Lord will forgive her.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.

10The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:7They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

Luke 2:37And she was a widow until fourscore and four years; who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

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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