1. Moses spoke to the princes of the tribes of Bnei-Yisrael saying, “This is what Adonai has commanded:
2. Whenever a man makes a vow to Adonai or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he is not to violate his word but do everything coming out of his mouth.
3. “Suppose a woman in her youth vows to Adonai or obligates herself by a pledge in her father’s house.
4. If her father should hear her vow or her pledge with which she obligated herself and her father says nothing to her, all her vows and every pledge by which she has obligated herself will stand.
5. But if her father should forbid it on the day of his hearing it, none of her vows or pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. Adonai will forgive her because her father has forbidden her.
6. “Suppose she should marry, after her vow or a rash promise of her lips by which she obligated herself.
7. Now if her husband hears about it but says nothing to her on the day he hears about it, her vows will stand and her pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand.
8. But if her husband should hear about it and on the day he hears it he forbids it, he thereby nullifies her vow and her rash promise by which her lips have obligated her, and Adonai will forgive her.
9. “Any vow or obligation of a widow or a divorced woman will be binding on her.
10. If in her husband’s house she vowed or obligated herself by pledge under oath,