Numbers 30:1-5 ▼

1 Later, Moses told the elders of the Israeli tribes, |This is what the LORD has commanded:

2 When a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath—an obligation that is binding to himself—he is not to break his word. Instead, he is to fulfill whatever promise came out of his mouth.'|

3 |When a young woman makes a vow to the LORD or pledges herself to an obligation while she still lives in her father's house,

4 and her father hears her vow and the obligations that she had pledged herself to fulfill, yet her father keeps silent about it, then all her vows and every obligation she pledged herself to are to stand.

5 But if her father disallows her on the same day that he hears what she has said, then all her vows and every obligation she had pledged herself to fulfill are not to stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.|