Numbers 30:9

Every solemn promise made by a widow or a woman who is divorced must be kept.

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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

8But if her husband disallows them when he finds out about it, then none of her promises or oaths remain valid and the Lord will release her from keeping them.

10If a woman living with her husband makes a solemn promise to the Lord or pledges to do something by swearing an oath,

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:7A priest is not to marry a woman made unclean through prostitution or who is divorced by her husband, for the priest must be holy to his God.

Luke 2:37and then she had been widowed. She was eighty-four years old. She spent her time at the Temple in worship, fasting and praying.

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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