◄ Numbers 30:9 {10} ►
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Good News Translation
A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.

New Revised Standard Version
(But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall be binding upon her.)

Contemporary English Version
Widows and divorced women must keep every promise they make to the LORD.

New American Bible
(The vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, however, any pledge to which such a woman binds herself, is valid.)

Douay-Rheims Bible
The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow.

Leviticus 21:7 They shall not take to wife a harlot or a vile prostitute, nor one that has been put away from her husband: because they are consecrated to their God,

Luke 2:37 And she was a widow until fourscore and four years: who departed not from the temple, by fastings and prayers serving night and day.

Romans 7:2 For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Context
Laws Concerning Vows
…8But 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. 9The widow, and she that is divorced, shall fulfil whatsoever they vow.10If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow and by oath,…
Cross References
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 30:10
If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow and by oath,

Numbers 30:8
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