Numbers 30:9

But if her husband should straitly forbid her in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

8and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her in the day in which he should hear, then thus shall all her vows be binding, and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand.

10And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatsoever she shall bind upon her soul, shall stand to her.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:7They shall not take a woman who is a harlot and profaned, or a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy to the Lord his God.

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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