“A person might hear a warning. Or a person might see or hear something that he should tell to other people. If that person does not tell what he saw or heard, then that person is guilty of doing wrong.
Numbers 30:15 - Easy To Read Version But if the husband hears about the promises and stops them, then he is responsible for breaking her promises. [365] ” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if he shall nullify them after he hears of them, then he shall be responsible for and bear her iniquity. American Standard Version (1901) But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. Common English Bible If he breaks them after he has heard them, he will assume her guilt. Catholic Public Domain Version But if the husband, upon hearing it, remains silent, and he delays judgment until another day, whatever she had vowed or promised, she shall repay, because when he first heard it, he remained silent. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace. |
“A person might hear a warning. Or a person might see or hear something that he should tell to other people. If that person does not tell what he saw or heard, then that person is guilty of doing wrong.
But if her husband hears about the promise and refuses to let her keep the promise, then she does not have to do what she promised. It does not matter what she promised, her husband can break the promise. If her husband breaks the promise, then the Lord will forgive her.
How does the husband let his wife keep her promises? If he hears about the promises and does not stop them, then the woman must do exactly what she promised.
Those are the commands that the Lord gave to Moses. Those are the commands about a man and his wife, and about a father and his daughter that is still young and living at home in her father’s house.
But if her father hears about the promise and does not agree, then she is free from her promise. She does not have to do the thing she promised. Her father stopped her, so the Lord will forgive her.
But if the husband hears about the promise and refuses to let her keep her promise, then the wife does not have to do the thing she promised. Her husband broke the promise—he did not let her do the thing she said. So the Lord will forgive her.