Numbers 30:9

'As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.

Young's Literal Translation

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

8'And if in the day of her husband's hearing he disalloweth her, then he hath broken her vow which [is] on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she hath bound on her soul, and Jehovah is propitious to her.

10'And if [in] the house of her husband she hath vowed, or hath bound a bond on her soul with an oath,

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:7'A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he [is] holy to his God;

Luke 2:37and she [is] a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, 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 →

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