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A young woman who still lives in her father's house might make a promise to the Lord. If her father hears about her promise and he does not say anything, she must do everything that she has promised. But her father may refuse to let her do it. Then she does not have to do what she promised to do. The Lord will understand why she does not do it.

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“When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the Lord or obligates herself by a pledge and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand.(A) But if her father forbids her(B) when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her.

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