Numbers 30

1 And Moses speaks to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, “This [is] the thing which YHWH has commanded:

And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

2 When a man vows a vow to YHWH, or has sworn an oath to bind a bond on his soul, he does not defile his word; he does according to all that is going out from his mouth.

When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

3 And when a woman vows a vow to YHWH, and has bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,

If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;

4 and her father has heard her vow and her bond which she has bound on her soul, and her father has kept silent to her, then all her vows have been established, and every bond which she has bound on her soul is established.

If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.

5 And if her father has disallowed her in the day of his hearing, none of her vows and her bonds which she has bound on her soul are established, and YHWH is propitious to her, for her father has disallowed her.

But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

6 And if she is having a husband, and her vows [are] on her, or a wrongful utterance [on] her lips which she has bound on her soul,

And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;

7 and her husband has heard, and in the day of his hearing he has kept silent to her, then her vows have been established, and her bonds which she has bound on her soul are established.

If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.

8 And if in the day of her husband’s hearing he disallows her, then he has broken her vow which [is] on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she has bound on her soul, and YHWH is propitious to her.

But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

9 As for the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she has bound on her soul is established on her.

But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.

10 And if she has vowed [in] the house of her husband, or has bound a bond on her soul with an oath,

If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,

11 and her husband has heard, and has kept silent to her—he has not disallowed her—then all her vows have been established, and every bond which she has bound on her soul is established.

And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.

12 And if her husband certainly breaks them in the day of his hearing, none of the outgoing of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, is established—her husband has broken them—and YHWH is propitious to her.

But if her husband, on hearing of it, made them without force or effect, then whatever she has said about her oaths or her undertaking has no force: her husband has made them without effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

13 Every vow and every oath—a bond to humble a soul—her husband establishes it, or her husband breaks it;

Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her husband.

14 and if her husband certainly keeps silent to her from day to day, then he has established all her vows or all her bonds which [are] on her; he has established them, for he has kept silent to her in the day of his hearing;

But if the days go on, and her husband says nothing whatever to her, then he is giving the support of his authority to her oaths and undertakings, because at the time of hearing them he said nothing to her.

15 and if he indeed breaks them after his hearing, then he has borne her iniquity.”

But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.

16 These [are] the statutes which YHWH has commanded Moses between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, in her youth, [in] the house of her father.

These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.