Common English Bible

Numbers 30:7-15 Common English Bible (CEB)

7. and her husband hears it and on the day he hears it keeps silent—her solemn promises will stand as well as her binding obligations for herself.

8. But if on the day that her husband hears it he expresses disapproval to her, he can break her solemn promise and the statement by which she bound herself. Then the Lord will forgive her.

9. Every solemn promise of a widow or a divorced woman who makes a binding obligation for herself will stand.

10. If a woman makes a solemn promise in her husband’s household or makes a binding obligation for herself with a solemn pledge,

11. and her husband hears, keeps silent, and doesn’t express disapproval to her—then all her solemn promises will stand and all her binding obligations for herself will stand.

12. If her husband breaks them on the day he hears them, then whatever she said with regard to her solemn promises or the binding obligations for herself will not stand. Her husband has broken them. The Lord will forgive her.

13. Her husband may allow any solemn promise or any binding pledge of self-denial to stand or be broken.

14. But if her husband keeps silent from one day to the next, he has upheld all her solemn promises, or all her binding obligations. He has upheld them because he remained silent on the day he heard them.

15. If he breaks them after he has heard them, he will assume her guilt.