Numbers 30:6

“If a woman promises Yahweh that she will do something, but then she gets married,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

In Context

5But if her father hears about what she promised and does not allow her to do that, then she does not need to do what she promised. Yahweh will forgive her for not doing what she promised.

7if her husband hears about what she promised to do, and he does not object, she must do what she promised [DOU].

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Cross References

Psalms 56:12I will bring to you the offering that I promised; I will bring an offering to you to thank you,

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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