Numbers 30

Numbers 30:1 Moses spoke to the leaders of the tribes of the people of Israel, and this is what he said “This is what Yahveh has commanded.

Numbers 30:2 If a man pledges a solemn pledge to Yahveh, or swears an oath to bind his throat by a pledge, he will not break his word. He will do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Numbers 30:3 “If a woman pledges a solemn pledge to Yahveh and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth,

Numbers 30:4 and her father hears of her solemn pledge — of her pledge by which she has bound her throat and says nothing to her, then all her solemn pledges will stand, and every pledge by which she has bound her soul will stand.

Numbers 30:5 But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no solemn pledge of hers, no pledge by which she has bound her throat will stand. And Yahveh will forgive her because her father opposed her.

Numbers 30:6 “If she marries a husband, while under her solemn pledges or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound her throat,

Numbers 30:7 and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her solemn pledges will stand, and her pledges by which she has bound her throat will stand.

Numbers 30:8 But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void the solemn pledge that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound her throat. And Yahveh will forgive her.

Numbers 30:9 (But any solemn pledge of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound her throat, will stand against her.)

Numbers 30:10 And if she solemnly pledged in her husband’s house or bound her throat by a pledge with an oath,

Numbers 30:11 and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her solemn pledges will stand, and every pledge by which she bound her throat will stand.

Numbers 30:12 But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her solemn pledges or concerning the pledge of her throat will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and Yahveh will forgive her.

Numbers 30:13 Any solemn pledge and any binding oath to discipline her throat, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.

Numbers 30:14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her solemn pledges or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them.

Numbers 30:15 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he will bear her violation.”

Numbers 30:16 These are the prescriptions that Yahveh commanded Moses regarding a man and his wife and a father and his daughter while she was in her youth within her father’s house.

Numbers 30 quotes:

“It is easily conceivable that under the influence of the fervent zeal inspired by the festivals enjoined in the preceding chapter, there would be prompted many of those voluntary gifts and services which are alluded to ch. 29:30.”

Bush, George. Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Numbers. New York: [publisher not identified], 1858. p. 438.

“To vow means to give, dedicate, or consecrate to God by solemn promise. Such vows are frequently made. There are two kinds of vow spoken of in verse 2 ; namely, the neder, which denotes, primarily, a positive vow, or a vow of performance, and the issar, which denotes a negative vow, or a vow of abstinence. In all ages, among all people, and in all religions, such vows have been uttered, at times with solemnity, and in other instances thoughtlessly and recklessly. Religious vows are more common
than others ; and yet men and women will vow on very small occasions and for very small purposes.
Very many are often entirely indifferent as to the performance of their vows.”

DUNN, Lewis R. The Gospel in the Book of Numbers. Hunt & Eaton: New York, 1889. p. 230.

“It is natural to suppose that at the expiration of the protracted wanderingsin the wilderness the pious Israelites would be desirous of testifying their gratitude by dedicating themselves, or some portion of their substance beyond that which the law demanded, to the service of the Lord.”

Ellicott, C. J. The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers. London: Cassell & Co, 1850. p. 183.