Numbers 30:7–16

⁷she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it. ⁸But if her husband forbids her to fulfil the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her.

⁹A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.

¹⁰If a married woman makes a vow or promises to abstain from something, ¹¹she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it. ¹²But if her husband forbids her to fulfil the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her husband prevented her from keeping her vow. ¹³Her husband has the right to affirm or to annul any vow or promise that she has made. ¹⁴But if, by the day after he hears of the vow, he has raised no objection, she must do everything that she has vowed or promised. He has affirmed the vow by not objecting on the day he heard of it. ¹⁵But if he later annuls the vow, he must suffer the consequences for the failure to fulfil the vow.

¹⁶These are the rules that the Lord gave Moses concerning vows made by an unmarried woman living in her father’s house or by a married woman.