Numbers 30 The law about women's votes

Numbers 30

The law about women's votes

1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the word which Jehovah hath commanded:

2 When a man vows a vow to the Lord, or takes an oath, binding his soul with an obligation, he will not violate his word: according to all that has gone out of his mouth, he will do.

3 And it shall come to pass when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and is bound to bind herself in the house of her father in her youth;

4 And his father hear his vow and his obligation, with which he bound his soul; and his father shall be silent to her, all his vows shall be valued; and all the bond with which he bound his soul shall be valued.

5 But if your father opposes in the day that he hears it, all his vows and his obligations; with whom he hath bound his soul, shall not be valued; but the Lord will forgive him, because his father forbade them.

6 And if she have a husband, and is bound by some vows, or an unthinking saying from her lips, by which she bound her soul;

7 And her husband shall hear, and be silent unto her in the day that he heareth, his vows shall be valued: and his bonds with which he hath bound his soul shall be valued.

8 But if her husband forbade her to do so on the day that he hears it, and void her vow to which she was bound, as well as the declaration of her lips, with which she bound her soul; the Lord will forgive him.

9 With regard to the vow of the widow, or of the divorced, every thing that binds his soul upon it shall be valuable.

10 But a vow was made in the house of her husband, or he bound his soul with an oath,

11 And her husband heard him, and held his peace, and did not forbid it; and all the obligation with which he bound his soul will be valuable.

12 But if her husband annulled them in the day when he heard them, whatsoever went out of his lips, whether of his vows or of his soul's will, shall not be of any value: his husband hath nullified them, and the Lord will forgive them.

13 All the vow, and all the oath of obligation, to humble the soul her husband, shall confirm it, or annul it.

14 And if her husband day by day shall be silent to her, then she shall confirm all her vows and all her oblations, which are upon her: she is sure of them, because she was silent to her in the day that she heard him.

15 But if he annul all of them after he has heard them, then he shall bear their iniquity.

16 These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses between the husband and his wife; between father and his daughter, in his youth, in his father's house.