Numbers 30:8

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

And he said to the woman, “I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him.”

Jeremiah 44:19

And the women added, “When we baked cakes shaped like the Queen of Heaven, offered sacrifices to her, and poured out wine offerings to her, our husbands approved of what we were doing.”

Leviticus 5:4

If you make a careless vow, no matter what it is about, you are guilty as soon as you realize what you have done.

Numbers 30:5

But if her father forbids her to fulfill 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.

Numbers 30:7

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

Numbers 30:9

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

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should keep quiet in the meetings. They are not allowed to speak; as the Jewish Law says, they must not be in charge.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife is not the master of her own body, but her husband is; in the same way a husband is not the master of his own body, but his wife is.

1 Samuel 1:23

Elkanah answered, “All right, do whatever you think best; stay at home until you have weaned him. And may the Lord make your promise come true.” So Hannah stayed at home and nursed her child.