Numbers 30:9
“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.
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In The King James Version
In Context
10“If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
Cross References
Leviticus 21:7+ 21:7. Lev 21:7 (Lev 21:7-8) (#7.461): T. A Cohen ·Priest· shall not marry a harlot or a prostitute / R. A Cohen ·Priest· must not marry a zonah ·a woman who had forbidden relations· “‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, + 21:7. Lev 21:7 (Lev 21:7-8) (#7.462): T. A Cohen ·Priest· shall not marry a prostitute / T. A Cohen ·Priest· shall not marry a chalalah ·pierced, fatally wounded, profaned· woman / R. A Cohen ·Priest· must not marry a chalalah ·an illegitimate child·; a party to or product of OU463 - OU466 found in (Lev 21:14, 21:15, 21:13, 21:7) who has been profaned. + 21:7. Lev 21:7 (Lev 21:7-8) (#7.463): A Cohen ·Priest· shall not marry a divorced woman They shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions 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 →