“When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the Lord or obligates herself by a pledge and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand.(A) But if her father forbids her(B) when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her.

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“Or if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by some agreement while in her father’s house in her youth, and her father hears her vow and the agreement by which she has bound herself, and her father [a]holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement with which she has bound herself shall stand. But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the Lord will release her, because her father overruled her.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 30:4 says nothing to interfere

Si alguien hace una promesa al Señor o se impone con juramento una obligación a sí mismo, no quebrantará su palabra, sino que cumplirá aquello a lo que se comprometió.

Si una mujer, que es aún joven y reside en la casa de su padre, hace una promesa al Señor, y su padre, conocedor de la promesa y de la obligación que ha asumido, no pone objeción a ello, todas las promesas de la joven serán firmes y los compromisos que haya asumido serán válidos.

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Women and Vows

“If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father's house in her youth, 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. 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.

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