Numbers 30 · Parashot Pinchas–Matot

And Moshe told the children of Yisra᾽el according to all that the Lord commanded Moshe.

And Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Yisra᾽el, saying, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded.

If a man vow a vow to the Lord, or swear 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.

If a woman also vow a vow to the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

and her father hear her vow, and her bond with which she has bound herself, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound herself shall stand.

But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears; not any of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound herself, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

And if she be married to a husband, when she vowed, or uttered aught out of her lips, with which she bound herself;

and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound herself shall stand.

But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of no effect: and the Lord shall forgive her.

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, with which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by a bond with an oath;

and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

But if her husband made them void on the day he heard them; then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of the soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may let it stand, or her husband may make it void.

But if her husband hold his peace at her from day to day; then he confirms all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirms them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

But if he should annul them after he has heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moshe, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.