1. So Moses instructed the Israelites exactly as the Lord had commanded him.
2. Moses said to the heads of the Israelite tribes, “This is what the Lord has commanded:
3. When a man makes a vow to the Lord or binds himself under oath to a pledge, he shall not violate his word, but must fulfill exactly the promise he has uttered.
4. “When a woman makes a vow to the Lord, or binds herself to a pledge, while still in her father’s house in her youth,
5. and her father learns of her vow or the pledge to which she bound herself and says nothing to her about it, then any vow or any pledge to which she bound herself remains valid.
6. But if on the day he learns of it her father opposes her, then any vow or any pledge to which she bound herself becomes invalid; and the Lord will release her from it, since her father opposed her.
7. “If she marries while under a vow or under a rash pledge to which she bound herself,
8. and her husband learns of it, yet says nothing to her on the day he learns it, then the vows or the pledges to which she bound herself remain valid.
9. But if on the day her husband learns of it he opposes her, he thereby annuls the vow she had made or the rash pledge to which she had bound herself, and the Lord will release her from it.