1 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord commanded Moses. 2 And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This [is] the thing which the Lord has commanded. 3 Whatsoever man shall vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with an obligation upon his soul, he shall not break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do. 4 And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father’s house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, 5 and all the obligations with which she has bound her soul, shall remain to her. 6 But if her father straitly forbid [her] in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her. 7 But if she should be indeed married, and her vows be upon her according to the utterance of her lips, in respect of [the obligations] which she has contracted upon her soul; 8 and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her in the day in which he should hear, then thus shall all her vows be binding, and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand. 9 But if her husband should straitly forbid [her] in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless. 10 And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatsoever she shall bind upon her soul, shall stand to her. 11 And if her vow [be made] in the house of her husband, or the obligation upon her soul with an oath, 12 and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and all the obligations which she contracted against her soul, shall stand against her. 13 But if her husband should utterly cancel the vow in the day in which he shall hear it, none of the things which shall proceed out of her lips in her vows, and in the obligations [contracted] upon her soul, shall stand to her; her husband has canceled them, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless. 14 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband shall confirm it to her, or her husband shall cancel it. 15 But if he be wholly silent at her from day to day, then shall he bind upon her all her vows; and he shall confirm to her the obligations [which she has bound] upon herself, because he held his peace at her in the day in which he heard her. 16 And if her husband should in anywise cancel [them] after the day in which he heard [them], then he shall bear his iniquity. 17 These [are] the ordinances which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and daughter in [her] youth in the house of [her] father.
Numbers · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Numbers 30 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
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- 1 Numbers 7:2; Deuteronomy 1:13–17; Numbers 1:4–16; Numbers 34:17–28; Exodus 18:25
- 2 Psalm 50:14; Psalm 116:14; Job 22:27; Ecclesiastes 5:4–5; Acts 23:12
- 5 Mark 7:10–13; Ephesians 6:1; Matthew 15:4–6; Hosea 6:6
- 6 Psalm 56:12
- 8 Genesis 3:16; 1 Corinthians 14:34; Ephesians 5:22–24; 1 Corinthians 7:4
- 9 Luke 2:37; Romans 7:2; Leviticus 21:7
- 12 Numbers 30:8; Numbers 15:25; Numbers 30:5; Numbers 15:28; 1 Corinthians 11:3
- 13 1 Corinthians 11:3; Psalm 35:13; Isaiah 58:5; Leviticus 23:32; Leviticus 16:29
- 15 Galatians 3:28; Numbers 30:12; Leviticus 5:1; Numbers 30:5; Numbers 30:8
- 16 Leviticus 13:59; Leviticus 15:32–33; Leviticus 14:54–57; Numbers 5:29–30; Leviticus 11:46–47
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