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Numbers 30:3-11 Good News Bible (GNB)

3. When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to give something to the Lord or promises to abstain from something,

4. she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it.

5. But if her father forbids her to fulfil the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.

6. If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries,

7. she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.

8. But if her husband forbids her to fulfil the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The Lord will forgive her.

9. A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.

10. If a married woman makes a vow or promises to abstain from something,

11. she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.