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1 Moses spoke to the heads of the stocks of the sons of Israel, saying:This is the matter that Yahweh has instructed.
2 In case a man vows a vow to Yahweh or swears an oath to bind a bond on his soul, he shall not profane his word. According to all coming forth from his mouth shall he do.
3 And in case a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a bond in the house of her father in her youth,
4 and her father hears about her vow or her bond which she has bound on her soul but her father is silent toward her, then all her vows are confirmed, and every bond which she has bound on her soul shall be confirmed.
5 Yet if her father repudiates her vow on the day he hears about it, all her vows and her bonds which she has bound on her soul shall not be confirmed, and Yahweh will pardon her, seeing that her father repudiated her act.
6 If it be that she should become a man's while her vows are on her or the talk of her lips which she has bound on her soul,
7 and her husband hears about it, yet on the day he hears he is silent toward her, then all her vows are confirmed, and her bond which she has bound on her soul shall be confirmed.
8 Yet if, on the day her husband hears about it, he repudiates her act, then he annuls her vow which is on her or the talk of her lips which she has bound on her soul, and Yahweh shall pardon her.
9 The vow of a widow or one driven out, all which she binds on her soul shall be confirmed on her.
10 Yet if, in the house of her husband, she vows or binds a bond on her soul by an oath,
11 and her husband hears about it but is silent toward her and does not repudiate her act, then all her vows are confirmed, and every bond which she has bound on her soul shall be confirmed.
12 Yet if her husband annuls, yea annuls them on the day he hears about them, then no utterance at all from her lips concerning her vows or the bond of her soul shall be confirmed. Her husband has annulled them, and Yahweh shall pardon her.
13 Every vow and every oath of binding to humiliate the soul, her husband shall confirm it or her husband shall annul it.
14 And if her husband is silent, yea silent toward her from day to day then he confirms all her vows or all her bonds which are on her; he has confirmed them, for he was silent toward her on the day he heard about it.
15 Yet if he annuls, yea annuls them after he heard about it, then he will bear her depravity.
16 These are the statutes which Yahweh had instructed Moses between a man and his wife and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father's house.