¹ And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.

² If a man shall vow a vow to the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.¹

1. break: Heb. profane

³ If a woman also shall vow a vow to the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

⁴ And her father shall hear her vow, and her bond by which she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond by which she hath bound her soul shall stand.

⁵ But if her father shall overrule her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds by which she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father overruled her.

⁶ And if she had an husband, when she vowed, or uttered any thing from her lips, by which she bound her soul;¹

1. she vowed: Heb. her vows were upon her

⁷ And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it : then her vows shall stand, and her bonds by which she bound her soul shall stand.

⁸ But if her husband overruled her on the day that he heard it ; then he shall make of no effect her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, by which she bound her soul: and the LORD shall forgive her.

⁹ But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, by which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

¹⁰ And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

¹¹ And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and overruled her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond by which she bound her soul shall stand.

¹² But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.

¹³ Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

¹⁴ But if her husband altogether holds his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them .

¹⁵ But if he shall in any way make them void after that he hath heard them ; then he shall bear her iniquity.

¹⁶ These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.