But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.
“Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,
I will come to your temple with burnt offerings and fulfill my vows to you—
It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one’s vows.
It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.
“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value,
If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.
Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the Lord your God with your own mouth.
But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. The whole assembly grumbled against the leaders,