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Numbers 30:7 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand. "
Numbers 30:7
Verse in Context
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5 But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.
6 “If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,
7 and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
8 But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. The LORD will forgive her.
9 “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.
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Numbers 30:1
"Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded."
Numbers 30:2
"When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth."
Numbers 30:3
"“Also, when a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,"
Numbers 30:4
"and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand."
Numbers 30:5
"But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her."
Numbers 30:6
"“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,"
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