obligation upon his soul, he shall not break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do. And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father’s house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and all the obligations with which she has bound her soul, shall remain to her. But if her father straitly