Chapter 30
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
1:4-16 7:2 34:17-28 Exodus 18:25 Deuteronomy 1:13-17
If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
If a man
The preceding chapters had treated of sacrifices required by law; and in the laws here delivered in respect to vows must have been very useful, as they both prevented and annulled rash vows, and provided a proper sanction for the support and performance of those which were rationally made, and which were made to the Lord.
vow a vow
21:2 Genesis 28:20-22 Leviticus 27:2-34 Deuteronomy 23:21,22 Judges 11:11,30,31,35,36 Judges 11:39 Psalms 15:3 56:12 76:11 119:106 Proverbs 20:25
swear
Exodus 20:7 Leviticus 5:4 Matthew 5:33,34 14:7-9 Acts 23:12 2 Corinthians 1:23 9:9-11
to bind
3,4,10 Matthew 23:16,18 *Gr:; Acts 23:12,14,21
break
Heb. profane.
Psalms 55:20 *marg:
he shall do
Job 22:27 Psalms 22:25 50:14 66:13,14 116:14,18 Ecclesiastes 5:4,5 Nahum 1:15
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
Hosea 6:6 Matthew 15:4-6 Mark 7:10-13 Ephesians 6:1
And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
she vowed
Heb. her vows were upon her.
But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
Genesis 3:16 1 Corinthians 7:4 14:34 Ephesians 5:22-24
But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.
Leviticus 21:7 Luke 2:37 Romans 7:2
But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
her husband hath made
and the Lord
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
and every
1 Corinthians 11:3,9 1 Peter 3:1-6
to afflict
29:7 Leviticus 16:29 23:27,32 Ezra 8:21 Psalms 35:13 Isaiah 58:5 1 Corinthians 7:5
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
he shall bear
5,8,12 Leviticus 5:1 Galatians 3:28
These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.