‘As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.
‘A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he [is] holy to his God;
‘And if [in] the house of her husband she hath vowed, or hath bound a bond on her soul with an oath,
‘And if in the day of her husband's hearing he disalloweth her, then he hath broken her vow which [is] on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she hath bound on her soul, and Jehovah is propitious to her.
and she [is] a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,
for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;
and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,