"Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void." — Numbers 30:13

Numbers 30:13 · KJV

“Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.”

— Numbers 30:13

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.

Verse 14

But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which {are} upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard {them}.

Numbers 30 — Context

And her husband heard {it}, and held his peace at her, {and} disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard {them}; then he shall bear her iniquity.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman {is} the man; and the head of Christ {is} God.

1 Corinthians 11:9

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

1 Peter 3:1-6

Likewise, ye wives, {be} in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Numbers 29:7

And ye shall have on the tenth {day} of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work {therein}:

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? {is it} to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes {under him}? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? {a day...: or, to afflict his soul for a day?}

Leviticus 23:27

Also on the tenth {day} of this seventh month {there shall be} a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Leviticus 16:29

And {this} shall be a statute for ever unto you: {that} in the seventh month, on the tenth {day} of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, {whether it be} one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

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