Numbers 30:15
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New International Version (©2011)
If, however, he nullifies them some time after he hears about them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing."

New Living Translation (©2007)
If he waits more than a day and then tries to nullify a vow or pledge, he will be punished for her guilt."

English Standard Version (©2001)
But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But if he indeed annuls them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But if he cancels them after he hears about them, he will be responsible for her commitment."

International Standard Version (©2012)
But if he nullified them after he had heard, then he will be responsible for any resulting iniquity."

NET Bible (©2006)
But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But if he cancels it later, he will suffer the consequences."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But if he shall in any way make them void after that he has heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

American King James Version
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he has heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

American Standard Version
But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.

Darby Bible Translation
But if he in any way annul them after he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.

English Revised Version
But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if he shall any way make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

World English Bible
But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity."

Young's Literal Translation
and if he doth at all break them after his hearing, then he hath borne her iniquity.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:3-16 Two cases of vows are determined. The case of a daughter in her father's house. When her vow comes to his knowledge, it is in his power either to confirm it or do it away. The law is plain in the case of a wife. If her husband allows her vow, though only by silence, it stands. If he disallows it, her obligation to her husband takes place of it; for to him she ought to be in subjection, as unto the Lord. The Divine law consults the good order of families. It is fit that every man should bear rule in his own house, and have his wife and children in subjection; rather than that this great rule should be broken, or any encouragement be given to inferior relations to break those bonds asunder, God releases the obligation even of a solemn vow. So much does religion secure the welfare of all societies; and in it the families of the earth have a blessing.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - Then he shall bear her iniquity, i.e., if he tacitly allowed the vow in the first instance, and afterwards forbad its fulfillment, the guilt which such breach of promise involved should rest upon him. For the nature and expiation of such guilt see on Leviticus 5,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But if he shall any ways make them void, after that he hath heard them,.... Some way or other expressing his dislike of them; not at the time he heard them, but some time afterwards; one day after, as the Targum of Jonathan:

then he shall bear his iniquity: be accountable for the breach of the vow, the sin shall be reckoned to him, and he shall bear the punishment of it, because he ought to have declared is disapprobation of it sooner; and it may be, his doing it when he did was only in a spirit of contradiction, or through covetousness; and it would have been more advisable to have let the vow stand, and therefore acted a criminal part, and so was answerable for it; the Targum of Jonathan explains it,"her husband or her father shall bear her iniquity,''supposing her not to be at age: Aben Ezra gives the reason of it, because she is in his power.

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Laws Concerning Vows
…14But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he confirms them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. 15But if he shall any ways make them void after that he has heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity. 16These 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.

Numbers 30:14 But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them.
Numbers 30:16 These are the regulations the LORD gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his young daughter still living at home.