Numbers · Chapter 30

[ edit] Moyſes forſoþe tolde to þe ſones of Yrael alle þingis þat þe Lord comaundide hym. And he ſpak to þe princes of þe lynagis of þe ſones of Yrael, Þis is þe word þat þe Lord comaundide, If eny of men auowe to þe Lord auowid, oþer hym ſilf bi ooþ ſtreynede, he ſhal not make at noȝt his word, but al þat he bihiȝt he ſhal fulfil. A womman ȝif eny þing ſhe auowiþ, and hir ſilf ſtreyn bi ooþ, þe which is in þe hows of hir fader, ȝit in childis age, if þe fader knowe þe vowe, þat ſhe haþ bihoot, and þe ooþ, bi þe which hir ſoul ſhe haþ obliſhid, and holde his pees, ſhe ſhal be gilti of þe auowe; what þing ſhe haþ bihoot and ſweriþ, in werk ſhe ſhal fulfil.

If forſoþe anoon as þe fader heriþ, he wiþſeiþ it, and þe vowis and þe ooþis of hir ſhulen be at nouȝt, ne ſhe ſhal be holdun gilti to þe biheeſt, forþi þat þe fader aȝenſeide it. If ſhe haue an houſboond, and auowe eny þing, and onys a word of hir mouþ goynge out þe ſoul of hir obliſhe bi ooþ, what day þe man heriþ, and wiþſeiþ not, ſhe ſhal be gilti of þe vowe; what þing euer ſhe haþ bihoot, ſhe ſhal ȝelde. If forſoþe anoon herynge he wiþſeiþ, and he makiþ at nouȝt al þe biheſt of hir, and þe wordis by þe which ſhe ſtreynede hir ſoul, þe Lord ſhal forȝyue to hir. A widew, and a departid, what þing þei auowen þei ſhulen ȝeelde.

A wijf in þe hows of hyr man, whanne ſhe byndiþ hir bi auowe, and bi ooþ, if þe man here, and holde his pees, ne wiþſeiþ to þe biheeſt, ſhe ſhal ȝeeld what euer þing ſhe haþ bihoot. If forſoþe anoon he wiþſeiþ, ſhe ſhal not be holdun gilti of þe biheeſt, for þe huſboond wiþſeiþ, and þe Lord ſhal forȝyue to hir. If ſhe auowe, and bi ooþ ſtreyne hir ſelf, þat bi faſtynge and abſtynens of oþer þingis ſhe traueyl hir ſoul, in þe dome of þe man it ſhal be, þat ſhe do it, or not do it. And if þe man herynge holde his pees, and into anoþer day deferre þe ſentence, what euer þing ſhe haþ vowid and bihoot, ſhe ſhal ȝeeld, for anoon as he herde, he heelde his pees.

If forſoþe he wiþſeiþ, after þat he aſſentide, he ſhal bere þe wickidnes of hir. Þes ben þe lawes þat þe Lord ordeynde to Moyſes, bitwix man and womman, bitwix fader and douȝter þat is ȝit in childis age, oþer þat in þe hows of fader and modir dwelleþ.