⁹ “Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.

² For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.^(A)

³⁷ and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.^[a](A) She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.^(B)

⁷ “‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands,^(A) because priests are holy to their God.^(B)