Números 30
Dios Habla Hoy
Normas sobre las promesas
30 (2) Moisés dijo a los jefes de las tribus israelitas:
«El Señor ha ordenado 2 (3) que cuando una persona le haga una promesa o se comprometa formalmente con juramento, deberá cumplir su palabra y hacer todo lo que haya prometido.
3 (4) »Cuando una mujer joven, que aún depende de su padre, haga una promesa al Señor o se comprometa a algo, 4 (5) si su padre, al enterarse de su promesa o compromiso, no le dice nada en contra, estará obligada a cumplir su promesa o compromiso. 5 (6) Pero si su padre, al enterarse, no lo aprueba, entonces ya no estará obligada a cumplir su promesa o compromiso. Puesto que su padre no lo aprueba, el Señor no le exigirá que lo cumpla.
6 (7) »Cuando se trate de una mujer que haya hecho promesas al Señor o haya tomado un compromiso a la ligera, y que luego se case, 7 (8) si su marido, al enterarse, no le dice nada en contra, estará obligada a cumplir sus promesas y sus compromisos. 8 (9) Pero si su marido, al enterarse, no los aprueba, entonces ya no estará obligada a cumplir sus promesas y sus compromisos tomados a la ligera. El Señor no le exigirá que los cumpla.
9 (10) »Si la que hace una promesa es viuda o divorciada, está obligada a cumplir todos los compromisos que contraiga.
10 (11) »Cuando una mujer casada haga una promesa o se comprometa a algo con juramento, estando en casa de su marido, 11 (12) si su marido, al enterarse, no le dice nada en contra ni desaprueba lo que hace, ella estará obligada a cumplir sus promesas y compromisos. 12 (13) Pero si su marido, al enterarse, los anula, ya no estará obligada a cumplirlos, puesto que el marido se los anuló. El Señor no le exigirá que los cumpla.
13 (14) »El marido puede confirmar o anular cualquier promesa o juramento que haga su mujer y que la obligue a ayunar. 14 (15) Si él no le dice nada en contra, y así pasa uno y otro día, con su silencio confirma todas las promesas o compromisos que ella haya tomado. 15 (16) Si los anula un tiempo después de enterarse, entonces él se hace responsable del incumplimiento de la mujer.»
16 (17) Éstas son las leyes que el Señor dio a Moisés sobre las relaciones entre el hombre y su mujer, y entre el padre y su hija, cuando ésta es joven y aún depende de su padre.
Numbers 30
English Standard Version
Men and Vows
30 Moses spoke to (A)the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, “This is what the Lord has commanded. 2 (B)If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or (C)swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. (D)He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Women and Vows
3 “If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, 4 and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. 5 But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her.
6 “If she marries a husband, while under her (E)vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself, 7 and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. 8 But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her (F)vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. (G)And the Lord will forgive her. 9 (But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.) 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath, 11 and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand. 12 But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and (H)the Lord will forgive her. 13 Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself,[a] her husband may establish,[b] or her husband may make void. 14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them. 15 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then (I)he shall bear her iniquity.”
16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father's house.
Footnotes
- Numbers 30:13 Or to fast
- Numbers 30:13 Or may allow to stand
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