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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, This is the thing that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded.
2If a man vows a vow to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., or swears an oath to bind a bond on his person, he shall not make his word ordinary. According to all that goes out of his mouth, he shall do.
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Neder is a vow. Shevu’ah is an oath. Issar is a bond, a binding on the person. Lo yachel is he shall not make his word ordinary, the same verb as treating a holy thing as ordinary.
3If a woman vows a vow to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and binds a bond, in her father’s house, in her youth,
4and her father hears her vow and her bond by which she bound her person, and her father is silent toward her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond by which she bound her person shall stand.
5But if her father restrains her on the day he hears, none of her vows or her bonds by which she bound her person shall stand. God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will forgive her, because her father restrained her.
6If she becomes a man’s, and her vows are on her, or a rash utterance of her lips by which she bound her person,
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Mivta sefateha is an utterance of her lips, something said quickly. It is not a formal vow, and the verse names it beside the vow.
7and her husband hears on the day he hears, and is silent toward her, then her vows shall stand, and her bond by which she bound her person shall stand.
8But if on the day her husband hears he restrains her and breaks her vow that is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips by which she bound her person, then God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will forgive her.
9The vow of a widow or a divorced woman, everything by which she bound her person, shall stand against her.
10If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound a bond on her person with an oath,
11and her husband heard and was silent toward her and did not restrain her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond by which she bound her person shall stand.
12But if her husband breaks them, breaks them, on the day he hears, then nothing that came out of her lips, of her vows or of the bond of her person, shall stand. Her husband has broken them, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will forgive her.
13Every vow and every oath of a bond, to afflict a person, her husband may confirm it, and her husband may break it.
14If her husband is silent toward her from day to day, then he has confirmed all her vows or all her bonds that are on her. He has confirmed them, because he was silent toward her on the day he heard.
15If he breaks them, breaks them, after he has heard, then he shall carry her guilt.
16These are the Rules that are meant to last. that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter in her youth, in her father’s house.