Numbers 30:7

New American Bible - revised edition

“If she marries while under a vow or under a rash pledge to which she bound herself,

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said: I will intensify your toil in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.

Jeremiah 44:19

And the women said, “When we offered sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and poured out libations to her, did we bake cakes in her image and pour out libations to her without our husbands’ consent?”

Numbers 30:6

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.

Numbers 30:8

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.

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband.

1 Samuel 1:11

and made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if you look with pity on the hardship of your servant, if you remember me and do not forget me, if you give your handmaid a male child, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life. No razor shall ever touch his head.”

1 Samuel 1:23

Her husband Elkanah answered her: “Do what you think best; wait until you have weaned him. Only may the Lord fulfill his word!” And so she remained at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him. Hannah Presents Samuel to the Lord.