IAnd Moses said it to the children of Israel, according to everything that YHWH commanded Moses.163
2And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing that YHWH commanded:* 3A man who will make a vow to YHWH or has sworn an oath to make a restriction on himself shall not desecrate his word. He shall do it according to everything that comes out of his mouth.
4“And a woman who will make a vow to YHWH and made a restriction in her father’s house in her youth, 5and her father hears her vow and her restriction that she made on herself, and her father keeps quiet to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every restriction that she made on herself shall stand. 6But if her father held her back on the day he heard all her vows and her restrictions that she made on herself, it will not stand. And YHWH will forgive her because her father held her back.
7“And if she will have a husband while her vows or the thing she let out of her lips with which she restricted herself are on her, 8and her husband hears and keeps quiet on the day he heard it, then her vows will stand, and her restrictions that she made on herself will stand. 9But if, on the day her husband hears it, he will hold her back and will break her vow that is on her and what was let out of her lips by which she restricted herself, then YHWH will forgive her.
10“And a widow’s or divorced woman’s vow, everything by which she has restricted herself, shall stand regarding her.
11“And if she vowed or made a restriction on herself by an oath at her husband’s house, 12and her husband heard it and kept quiet to her—he did not hold her back—then all her vows shall stand, and every restriction that she made on herself shall stand. 13But if her husband broke them on the day he heard all that came out of her lips for her vows and for restricting herself, it shall not stand. Her husband had broken them, and YHWH will forgive her. 14Every vow and every oath of restriction to degrade oneself: her husband shall make it stand, and her husband shall break it. 15And if her husband will keep quiet in regard to her from that day to the next, then he has made all her vows and all her restrictions that are on her stand. He has made them stand because he kept quiet to her on the day he heard it. 16And if he will break them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her crime.”
17These are the laws that YHWH commanded Moses between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter in heryouth at her father’s house.