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‘When a man makes a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath—an obligation that is binding to himself—he is not to break his word. Instead, he is to fulfill whatever promise[a] came out of his mouth.’”

Vows by Unmarried Women

“When a young woman makes a vow to the Lord or pledges[b] herself[c] to an obligation while she still lives in her father’s house, and her father hears her vow and the obligations that she had pledged[d] herself to fulfill, yet her father keeps silent about it, then all her vows and every obligation she pledged herself to are to stand.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 30:2 Lit. words
  2. Numbers 30:3 Lit. binds; and so throughout the chapter
  3. Numbers 30:3 Lit. soul
  4. Numbers 30:4 Or bonded; and so throughout the chapter