◄ Numbers 30:4 {5} ►
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Good News Translation
she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it.

New Revised Standard Version
and her father hears of her vow or her pledge by which she has bound herself, and says nothing to her; then all her vows shall stand, and any pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Contemporary English Version
If her father hears about it and says nothing, she must keep her promise.

New American Bible
and her father learns of her vow or the pledge to which she bound herself and says nothing to her about it, then any vow or any pledge to which she bound herself remains valid.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.

Numbers 30:2 If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

Context
Laws Concerning Vows
…3If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow: 4Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.5But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it.…
Cross References
Numbers 30:3
If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow:

Numbers 30:5
But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it.

Numbers 30:3
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