This edition follows the Hebrew versification; the traditional number is given in brackets.
Vows and Pledges
1[29:40]Moses told the Israelites everything, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. 2[30:1]Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the Israelites, saying, “This is what Yahweh has commanded: 3[30:2]If a man makes a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind himself under a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has spoken. 4[30:3]If a woman makes a vow to Yahweh, or binds herself under a pledge, while she is young and in her father’s house, 5[30:4]and her father hears her vow and the pledge she has bound herself with, and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge she has bound herself with shall stand. 6[30:5]But if her father forbids her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or pledges she has bound herself with shall stand, and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father forbade her. 7[30:6]If she marries while her vows are binding on her, or a rash promise from her lips by which she bound herself, 8[30:7]and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day he hears, then her vows shall stand, and the pledges she bound herself with shall stand. 9[30:8]But if her husband forbids her on the day he hears of it, he thereby cancels the vow that was binding on her, and the rash promise of her lips by which she bound herself, and Yahweh will forgive her. 10[30:9]The vow of a widow or a divorced woman, everything she has bound herself with, shall stand against her. 11[30:10]If she made a vow in her husband’s house, or bound herself under a pledge by an oath, 12[30:11]and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her, and did not forbid her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge she bound herself with shall stand. 13[30:12]But if her husband indeed cancels them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips concerning her vows or the pledge on herself shall stand; her husband has canceled them, and Yahweh will forgive her. 14[30:13]Every vow, and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may cancel it. 15[30:14]But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows, or all her pledges that are on her; he has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard of them. 16[30:15]But if he cancels them well after he first heard of them, then he shall bear her guilt.” 17[30:16]These are the statutes that Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter while she is young, in her father’s house.
