Numbers 30:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Cross References

Job 22:27

You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.

Psalm 116:14

I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.

Psalm 116:18

I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people,

Psalm 119:106

I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe your righteous ordinances.

Psalm 15:3

who do not slander with their tongue and do no evil to their friends nor heap shame upon their neighbors;

Psalm 22:25

From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.

Psalm 50:14

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 55:20

My companion laid hands on a friend and violated a covenant with me

Psalm 56:12

My vows to you I must perform, O God; I will render thank offerings to you.

Psalm 76:11

Make vows to the Lord your God and perform them; let all who are around him bring gifts to the one who is awesome,

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for one to say rashly, “It is holy,” and begin to reflect only after making a vow.

Leviticus 5:4

Or when any of you utter aloud a rash oath for a bad or a good purpose, whatever people utter in an oath and are unaware of it, when you come to know it, you shall in any of these be guilty.

Nahum 1:15

Look! On the mountains the feet of one who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the wicked invade you; they are utterly cut off.

Numbers 21:2

Then Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their towns.”

Numbers 30:10

And if she made a vow in her husband’s house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath

Numbers 32:24

Build towns for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

Matthew 23:16

“Woe to you, blind guides who say, ‘Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.’

Matthew 23:18

And you say, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the gift that is on the altar is bound by the oath.’

Acts 23:12

In the morning the Jews joined in a conspiracy and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 23:14

They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food until we have killed Paul.

Acts 23:21

But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they kill him. They are ready now and are waiting for your consent.”

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call on God as witness against me: it was to spare you that I did not come again to Corinth.

Judges 11:11

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them, and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 11:39

At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to the vow he had made. She had never slept with a man. So there arose an Israelite custom that