Numbers 30:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ If a young woman still living at ·home [^Lthe house of her father] makes a ·promise [vow] to the Lord or ·pledges to do something special [binds herself to an obligation], ⁴ and if her father hears about the ·promise [vow] or ·pledge [obligation by which she has bound herself] and says nothing, ·she must do what she promised [^Lall her vows stand]. ·She must keep her pledge [^LAll her obligations to which she has bound herself will stand]. ⁵ But if her father hears about the ·promise [vow] or ·pledge [obligation by which she has bound herself] and ·does not allow it [disapproves], then the ·promise [vow] or ·pledge [obligation] does not ·have to be kept [^Lstand]. Her father ·would not allow it [disapproves], so the Lord will ·free her from her promise [^Lforgive her].