1 And Moses explained to the sons of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him. 2 And he said to the leaders of the tribes of the sons of Israel: “This is the word, which the Lord has instructed: 3 If any man makes a vow to the Lord, or binds himself by an oath, he shall not make his word null and void, but all that he has promised, he shall fulfill. 4 If a woman, who is in her father’s house, vows anything, or binds herself by an oath, and she is still in a state of childhood, if her father knew of the vow which she has promised or of the oath by which she has obligated her soul, and he kept silent, she shall be liable to the vow: 5 whatever she has promised or swore, she shall complete in deed. 6 But if her father, as soon as he had heard it, had contradicted it, both her vows and her oaths shall be nullified, neither shall she be held liable to the promise, because her father had contradicted it. 7 If she has a husband, and she has vowed anything, then, once the word has gone out of her mouth, she will have obligated her soul by an oath. 8 On the day that her husband will hear of it, and yet not contradict it, she shall be liable to the vow, and she shall repay whatever she has promised. 9 But if, as soon as he hears it, he contradicts it, then he will have caused her promises, and the words by which she had bound her soul, to be null and void. The Lord will be favorable to her. 10 Widows and divorced women shall repay whatever they have vowed. 11 If a wife in the house of her husband has bound herself by a vow or an oath, 12 if her husband heard it and remained silent, and he did not contradict the promise, she shall repay what she had promised. 13 But if he promptly contradicts it, she shall not be held liable to the promise. For her husband has contradicted it. And the Lord will be favorable to her. 14 If she has vowed or bound herself by oath, in order to afflict her soul by fasting, or by abstaining from other things, it shall be for the arbitration of her husband, as to whether or not she may do it. 15 But if the husband, upon hearing it, remains silent, and he delays judgment until another day, whatever she had vowed or promised, she shall repay, because when he first heard it, he remained silent. 16 And if he contradicted it only sometime after he had known about it, he shall bear his iniquity.” 17 These are the laws which the Lord has appointed to Moses, between a husband and a wife, between a father and a daughter, who is still in the state of childhood or who remains in her father’s house.
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
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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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