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Numbers 30
After pages of fixed offerings, the focus turns to a personal kind of word: the vow. A man who vows to the LORD must not break his word — he does all that proceeds out of his mouth. The rest of the chapter treats when a woman's vow stands and when it may be annulled. Watch the timing clause repeated throughout: a father or husband must object "in the day that he hears it." Silence confirms the vow; only same-day objection voids it, and a widow's or divorced woman's vow simply stands.
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Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.
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When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
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“Also, when a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,
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and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
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But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.
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“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,
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and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
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But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. The LORD will forgive her.
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“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.
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“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
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and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.
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But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. The LORD will forgive her.
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Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
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But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them.
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But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”
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These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.
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Y MOISÉS dijo á los hijos de Israel, conforme á todo lo que Jehová le había mandado.
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Y habló Moisés á los príncipes de las tribus de los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Esto es lo que Jehová ha mandado.
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Cuando alguno hiciere voto á Jehová, ó hiciere juramento ligando su alma con obligación, no violará su palabra: hará conforme á todo lo que salió de su boca.
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Mas la mujer, cuando hiciere voto á Jehová, y se ligare con obligación en casa de su padre, en su mocedad;
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Si su padre oyere su voto, y la obligación con que ligó su alma, y su padre callare á ello, todos los votos de ella serán firmes, y toda obligación con que hubiere ligado su alma, firme será.
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Mas si su padre le vedare el día que oyere todos sus votos y sus obligaciones, con que ella hubiere ligado su alma, no serán firmes; y Jehová la perdonará, por cuanto su padre le vedó.
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Empero si fuere casada, é hiciere votos, ó pronunciare de sus labios cosa con que obligue su alma;
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Si su marido lo oyere, y cuando lo oyere callare á ello, los votos de ella serán firmes, y la obligación con que ligó su alma, firme será.
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Pero si cuando su marido lo oyó, le vedó, entonces el voto que ella hizo, y lo que pronunció de sus labios con que ligó su alma, será nulo; y Jehová lo perdonará.
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Mas todo voto de viuda, ó repudiada, con que ligare su alma, será firme.
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Y si hubiere hecho voto en casa de su marido, y hubiere ligado su alma con obligación de juramento,
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Si su marido oyó, y calló á ello, y no le vedó; entonces todos sus votos serán firmes, y toda obligación con que hubiere ligado su alma, firme será.
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Mas si su marido los anuló el día que los oyó; todo lo que salió de sus labios cuanto á sus votos, y cuanto á la obligación de su alma, será nulo; su marido los anuló, y Jehová la perdonará.
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Todo voto, ó todo juramento obligándose á afligir el alma, su marido lo confirmará, ó su marido lo anulará.
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Empero si su marido callare á ello de día en día, entonces confirmó todos sus votos, y todas las obligaciones que están sobre ella: confirmólas, por cuanto calló á ello el día que lo oyó.
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Mas si las anulare después de haberlas oído, entonces él llevará el pecado de ella. Estas son las ordenanzas que Jehová mandó á Moisés entre el varón y su mujer, entre el padre y su hija, durante su mocedad en casa de su padre.
The weight of a delayed word
The chapter hangs on hearing and timing. If a father or husband says nothing the day he hears, the vow stands; if he forbids it that day, the LORD forgives her.
The sharpest case comes last: if a husband hears, stays silent, then later nullifies the vow, he bears her iniquity (v.15). The right to annul is bounded by time — wait past the day, and the responsibility shifts onto the one who broke it.
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