Numbers 30:13
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
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Leviticus 16:29+ 16:29. Lev 16:29 (Lev 16:29-31) (#4.292): T. To afflict yourself on Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement· 10th day of seventh month Tishrei / R. To fast and to deny yourself (on Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement· 10th day of seventh month Tishrei) T. Directive: This is a Sabbath of complete rest, do no work and deny yourselves (v31) “It shall be a regulation to you forever: in the seventh month Ethanim ·Ever-flowing durable stream (in Hebrew), 7· or Tishrei ·[Beginning (in Babylonian)]·, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:
Leviticus 23:32+ 23:32. Lev 23:32 (Lev 26:29-31, 23:26-32; Num 29:7-11) (#4.307): T. Not to do work on Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement· 10th day of seventh month Tishrei, it is a sabbath of complete rest / R. Not to do prohibited labor on Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement· T. Directive: You must observe your Sabbath. This is a Sabbath day from evening the ninth day of the seventh month Tishrei to the following evening It shall be a Shabath ·Intermission· of solemn rest for you, + 23:32. Lev 23:32 (Lev 23:26-32) (#4.308): T. To deny yourself on the day of the Fast, that is Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement·, 10th day of the seventh month Tishrei, it is a Sabbath of complete rest / R. Not to eat or drink on the Day of the Fast, Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement· R. Note: This day we are commanded to be humble before God, the Rabbis encourage fasting this day. That is why it is also called “The Fast” and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, + 23:32. Lev 23:32 (Lev 23:26-32) (#4.309): T. To rest on the day of Yom Kippur ·Day of Atonement·, it is a Sabbath of complete rest / T. To rest on the day of the Fast / R. To rest from prohibited labor on Sabbath you shall keep your Shabath ·Intermission·.” (6)
Isaiah 58:5Is this the fast that I have chosen? 2 A day for a man to humble his soul? 1 Is it to bow down his head like a reed, 2 and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? 1 Will you call this a fast, 2 and an acceptable day to Adonai? 1
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 →