Numbers 30:5 {6}
Good News Translation
But if her father forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The LORD will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.

New Revised Standard Version
But if her father expresses disapproval to her at the time that he hears of it, no vow of hers, and no pledge by which she has bound herself, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father had expressed to her his disapproval.

Contemporary English Version
But if he hears about it and objects, then she no longer has to keep her promise. The LORD will forgive her, because her father did not agree with the promise.

New American Bible
But if on the day he learns of it her father opposes her, then any vow or any pledge to which she bound herself becomes invalid; and the LORD will release her from it, since her father opposed her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Matthew 15:4-6 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. . . .

Mark 7:10-13 For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. . . .

Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is just.

Context
Laws Concerning Vows
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.6If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,…
Cross References
Numbers 30:4
Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.

Numbers 30:6
If she have a husband, and shall vow any thing, and the word once going out of her mouth shall bind her soul by an oath,

Numbers 30:8
But if as soon as he heareth he gainsay it, and make her promises and the words wherewith she had bound her soul of no effect: the Lord will forgive her.

Numbers 30:11
If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.

Numbers 30:4
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