1And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: 2If a man vows a vow unto Jehovah, or swears an oath to bind his soul to a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. 3If a woman vows a vow unto Jehovah, and has bound her soul to a bond while in her father’s house in her youth, 4and her father has heard her vow and the bond by which she has bound her soul, and her father has remained silent, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond to which she has bound her soul shall stand. 5But if her father has disallowed her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her bonds by which she has bound her soul shall stand; and Jehovah will forgive her, because her father has disallowed her. 6And if she belongs to a husband, when she has bound her soul with a vow or rash utterance of her lips, 7and her husband has heard, and has kept silent to her on the day that he hears, then her vows have been confirmed, and her bonds by which she bound her soul shall stand. 8But if her husband disallows her on the day that he hears it, he has made void her vow which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul; and Jehovah will forgive her. 9But any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound her soul, shall be confirmed against her. 10If she has vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, 11and her husband has heard it, and kept silent to her and has not disallowed her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond by which she has bound her soul has been confirmed. 12But if her husband disallows, to void them on the day he hears them, then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the bond of her soul shall not stand; her husband has made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her. 13Every vow and every binding oath to humble her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void. 14But if her husband is silent and says nothing to her from day to day, then he has confirmed all her vows or all the bonds that are upon her; he has confirmed them, because he has remained silent to her on the day that he heard them. 15And if he does disallow, to make them void after he has heard them, then he has taken on her guilt. 16These are the statutes which Jehovah has commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father’s house.