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offerings and your freewill offerings) as your because he made no response to her on the
burnt offerings and your grain offerings, as day that he heard them. But if he does make
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your drink offerings and your peace offerings.’ ” them void after he has heard them, then he
40 So Moses told the children of Israel every- shall bear her guilt.”
thing, just as the LORD commanded Moses. 16 These are the statutes which the LORD
Then Moses spoke to the heads of the commanded Moses, between a man and his
30 tribes concerning the children of wife, and between a father and his daughter in
Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the her youth in her father’s house.
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LORD has commanded: If a man makes a vow Psalm 34:15–22
to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself
by some agreement, he shall not break his 15 The eyes of the LORD are on the
word; he shall do according to all that pro- righteous,
ceeds out of his mouth. And His ears are open to their cry.
3 “Or if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, 16 The face of the LORD is against those
and binds herself by some agreement while in who do evil,
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her father’s house in her youth, and her To cut off the remembrance of them
father hears her vow and the agreement by from the earth.
which she has bound herself, and her father 17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD
holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, hears,
and every agreement with which she has And delivers them out of all their
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bound herself shall stand. But if her father troubles.
overrules her on the day that he hears, then 18 The LORD is near to those who have a
none of her vows nor her agreements by broken heart,
which she has bound herself shall stand; and And saves such as have a contrite
the LORD will release her, because her father spirit.
overruled her.
6 “If indeed she takes a husband, while
bound by her vows or by a rash utterance
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from her lips by which she bound herself, and
her husband hears it, and makes no response 34:18 broken heart,…contrite spirit. These
to her on the day that he hears, then her vows are graphic idioms that describe dependent
shall stand, and her agreements by which she disciples (see Pss. 51:17; 147:3; Is. 57:15; 61:1;
bound herself shall stand. But if her husband 66:2; Matt. 5:3).
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overrules her on the day that he hears it, he
shall make void her vow which she took and
what she uttered with her lips, by which she
bound herself, and the LORD will release her. 19
9 “Also any vow of a widow or a divorced Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
woman, by which she has bound herself, shall But the LORD delivers him out of
them all.
stand against her. 20
10 “If she vowed in her husband’s house, or He guards all his bones;
bound herself by an agreement with an oath, 21 Not one of them is broken.
11 and her husband heard it, and made no Evil shall slay the wicked,
response to her and did not overrule her, then And those who hate the righteous shall
be condemned.
all her vows shall stand, and every agreement 22 The LORD redeems the soul of His
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by which she bound herself shall stand. But servants,
if her husband truly made them void on the And none of those who trust in Him
day he heard them, then whatever proceeded shall be condemned.
from her lips concerning her vows or con-
cerning the agreement binding her, it shall Proverbs 11:30–31
not stand; her husband has made them void,
30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of
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and the LORD will release her. Every vow and
life,
every binding oath to afflict her soul, her hus- And he who wins souls is wise.
band may confirm it, or her husband may
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make it void. Now if her husband makes no 31 If the righteous will be recompensed
response whatever to her from day to day, on the earth,
then he confirms all her vows or all the agree- How much more the ungodly and the
ments that bind her; he confirms them, sinner.
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