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许愿之例

30 摩西晓谕以色列各支派的首领说:“耶和华所吩咐的乃是这样: 人若向耶和华许愿或起誓,要约束自己,就不可食言,必要按口中所出的一切话行。 女子年幼还在父家的时候,若向耶和华许愿,要约束自己, 她父亲也听见她所许的愿并约束自己的话,却向她默默不言,她所许的愿并约束自己的话就都要为定。 但她父亲听见的日子若不应承她所许的愿和约束自己的话,就都不得为定,耶和华也必赦免她,因为她父亲不应承。

“她若出了嫁,有愿在身,或是口中出了约束自己的冒失话, 她丈夫听见的日子,却向她默默不言,她所许的愿并约束自己的话就都要为定。 但她丈夫听见的日子,若不应承,就算废了她所许的愿和她出口约束自己的冒失话,耶和华也必赦免她。

“寡妇或是被休的妇人所许的愿,就是她约束自己的话,都要为定。 10 她若在丈夫家里许了愿或起了誓,约束自己, 11 丈夫听见,却向她默默不言,也没有不应承,她所许的愿并约束自己的话就都要为定。 12 丈夫听见的日子,若把这两样全废了,妇人口中所许的愿或是约束自己的话就都不得为定,因她丈夫已经把这两样废了,耶和华也必赦免她。 13 凡她所许的愿和刻苦约束自己所起的誓,她丈夫可以坚定,也可以废去。 14 倘若她丈夫天天向她默默不言,就算是坚定她所许的愿和约束自己的话,因丈夫听见的日子向她默默不言,就使这两样坚定。 15 但她丈夫听见以后,若使这两样全废了,就要担当妇人的罪孽。 16 这是丈夫待妻子,父亲待女儿,女儿年幼还在父家,耶和华所吩咐摩西的律例。”

Keeping or Nullifying Vows

30 Moses spoke to the princes of the tribes of Bnei-Yisrael saying, “This is what Adonai has commanded:

Parashat Matot

Whenever a man makes a vow to Adonai or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he is not to violate his word but do everything coming out of his mouth.[a]

“Suppose a woman in her youth vows to Adonai or obligates herself by a pledge in her father’s house. If her father should hear her vow or her pledge with which she obligated herself and her father says nothing to her, all her vows and every pledge by which she has obligated herself will stand. But if her father should forbid it on the day of his hearing it, none of her vows or pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. Adonai will forgive her because her father has forbidden her.

“Suppose she should marry, after her vow or a rash promise of her lips by which she obligated herself. Now if her husband hears about it but says nothing to her on the day he hears about it, her vows will stand and her pledges by which she has obligated herself will stand. But if her husband should hear about it and on the day he hears it he forbids it, he thereby nullifies her vow and her rash promise by which her lips have obligated her, and Adonai will forgive her.

“Any vow or obligation of a widow or a divorced woman will be binding on her. 10 If in her husband’s house she vowed or obligated herself by pledge under oath, 11 and her husband should hear it and say nothing to her, not forbidding her, all her vows and every pledge by which she has obligated herself will stand. 12 But if her husband should nullify them on the day when he hears of them, nothing from her lips, whether vow or pledge, will stand. Her husband has nullified them and Adonai will forgive her. 13 Her husband may ratify or veto any vow or sworn oath to deny herself.

14 “But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he is confirming all her vows and all her oaths that are on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her on the day of his hearing about it. 15 But if he nullifies them after hearing about it, he will bear her guilt.”

16 These are the statutes that Adonai gave to Moses relevant to relationships between a man and his wife, as well as between a father and his young daughter still living in his house.

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 30:2 cf. Matt. 5:33.