[1] Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, "This is
what the LORD has commanded. [2] When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or
swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he
shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. [3] Or when a
woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a pledge, while within
her father's house, in her youth, [4] and her father hears of her vow and
of her pledge by which she has bound herself, and says nothing to her; then
all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself
shall stand. [5] But if her father expresses disapproval to her on the day
that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound
herself, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father
opposed her. [6] And if she is married to a husband, while under her vows
or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,
[7] and her husband hears of it, and says nothing to her on the day that he
hears; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound
herself shall stand. [8] But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear
of it, he expresses disapproval, then he shall make void her vow which was
on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips, by which she bound
herself; and the LORD will forgive her. [9] But any vow of a widow or of a
divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand
against her. [10] And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound herself
by a pledge with an oath, [11] and her husband heard of it, and said
nothing to her, and did not oppose her; then all her vows shall stand, and
every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand. [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 vows, or concerning her
pledge of herself, shall not stand: her husband has made them void, and the
LORD will forgive her. [13] Any vow and any binding oath to afflict
herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void. [14] But
if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all
her vows, 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. [15] But
if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall
bear her iniquity." [16] These are the statutes which the LORD commanded
Moses, as between a man and his wife, and between a father and his
daughter, while in her youth, within her father's house.
