Numbers 30

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.	1 Moses told the Israelites exactly what Yahweh had ordered him.
2 If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.	2 Moses spoke to the tribal leaders of the Israelites and said, 'This is what Yahweh has ordered:
3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;	3 "If a man makes a vow to Yahweh or a formal pledge under oath, he must not break his word:whatever he promises by word of mouth he must do.
4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.	4 "If a woman makes a vow to Yahweh or a formal pledge during her youth, while she is stil in her father's house,
5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.	5 and if her father hears about this vow or pledge made by her and says nothing to her, her vow,whatever it may be, will be binding, and the pledge she has taken, whatever it may be, will be binding.
6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;	6 But if her father on the day he learns of it expresses his disapproval of it, then none of the vows orpledges she has taken wil be binding. Yahweh will not hold her to it, since her father has expressed hisdisapproval.
7 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.	7 "If, being bound by vows or by a pledge voiced without due reflection, she then marries,
8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.	8 and if her husband hears of it but says nothing on the day he learns of it, her vows wil be binding andthe pledges she has taken will be binding.
9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.	9 But if on the day he learns of it he expresses his disapproval to her, this wil annul the vow that shehas made or the pledge that binds her, voiced without due reflection. Yahweh wil not hold her to it.
10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;	10 "The vow of a widow or a divorced woman and al pledges taken by her are binding on her.
11 And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.	11 "If she has made a vow or taken a pledge under oath while in her husband's house,
12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.	12 and if when the husband learns of it he says nothing to her and does not express disapproval to her,then the vow, whatever it is, wil be binding, and the pledge, whatever it is, will be binding.
13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.	13 But if the husband when he hears of it annuls it on the day he learns of it, no undertaking of hers, beit vow or pledge, will be binding. Since the husband has annul ed it, Yahweh wil not hold her to it.
14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.	14 "Every vow or oath that is binding on the wife may be endorsed or annul ed by the husband.
15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.	15 "If by the fol owing day the husband has said nothing to her, it means that he endorses her vow,whatever it may be, or her pledge, whatever it may be. He endorses them if he says nothing on the day helearns of them.
16 These 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.	16 But if, having learnt of them, he annuls them later, he wil bear the consequences for his wife's guilt."'
	17 Such were the laws which Yahweh prescribed to Moses, concerning the relationship between a manand his wife, and between a father and his daughter while stil young and living in her father's home.