Numbers 30
Complete Jewish Bible
30 (29:40) Moshe told the people of Isra’el everything, just as Adonai had ordered Moshe.
Haftarah Pinchas: M’lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 18:46–19:21
B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Pinchas: Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:1–30; Mark 14:1–26; Luke 22:1–20; Yochanan (John) 2:13–22; 7:1–13, 37–39; 11:55–12:1; 13:1; 18:28, 39; 19:14; Acts 2:1–21; 12:3–4; 20:5–6, 16; 27:9–11; 1 Corinthians 5:6 – 8; 16:8; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:28
Parashah 42: Mattot (Tribes) 30:2(1) –32:42
[In regular years read with Parashah 43, in leap years read separately]
2 (1) Then Moshe spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Isra’el. He said, “Here is what Adonai has ordered: 3 (2) when a man makes a vow to Adonai or formally obligates himself by swearing an oath, he is not to break his word but is to do everything he said he would do.
4 (3) “When a woman makes a vow to Adonai, formally obligating herself, while she is a minor living in her father’s house; 5 (4) then, if her father has heard what she vowed or obligated herself to do and holds his peace, then all her vows remain binding — every obligation she has bound herself to will stand. 6 (5) But if on the day her father hears it, he expresses his disapproval, then none of her vows or obligations she has bound herself to will stand; and Adonai will forgive her, because her father expressed his disapproval.
7 (6) “If, having made vows or rashly committed herself to an obligation, she gets married; 8 (7) and her husband hears but holds his peace with her on the day he learns of it, then her vows and obligations she has bound herself to will stand. 9 (8) But if her husband expresses his disapproval on the day he hears it, he will void the vow which is on her and the obligation to which she has bound herself; and Adonai will forgive her.
10 (9) “The vow of a widow, however, or of a divorcee, including everything to which she has obligated herself, will stand against her.
11 (10) “If a woman vowed in her husband’s house or obligated herself with an oath; 12 (11) and her husband heard it but held his peace with her and did not express disapproval, then all her vows and obligations will stand. 13 (12) But if her husband makes them null and void on the day he hears them, then whatever she said, vows or binding obligation, will not stand; her husband has voided them; and Adonai will forgive her. 14 (13) Her husband may let every vow and every binding obligation stand, or he may void it. 15 (14) But if her husband entirely holds his peace with her day after day, then he confirms all her vows and obligations; he must let them stand, because he held his peace with her on the day he heard them. 16 (15) If he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he will bear the consequent guilt.”
17 (16) These are the laws which Adonai ordered Moshe between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, if she is a minor living in her father’s house.
Números 30
La Biblia de las Américas
La ley de los votos
30 Entonces Moisés habló a los jefes(A) de las tribus de los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Esto es lo que el Señor ha ordenado. 2 Si un hombre hace un voto al Señor(B), o hace un juramento para imponerse una obligación, no faltará a su palabra; hará conforme a todo lo que salga de su boca. 3 Asimismo, si una mujer hace un voto al Señor, y se impone una obligación en su juventud estando en casa de su padre, 4 y su padre escucha su voto y la obligación que se ha impuesto, y su padre no le dice nada[a], entonces todos los votos de ella serán firmes, y toda obligación que se ha impuesto será firme. 5 Pero si su padre se lo prohíbe el día en que se entera de ello, ninguno de sus votos ni las obligaciones que se ha impuesto serán firmes. El Señor la perdonará porque su padre se lo prohibió.
6 Mas si se casa[b] mientras está bajo sus votos[c] o bajo la declaración imprudente de sus labios con que se ha atado, 7 y su marido se entera de ello y no le dice nada el día en que lo oye, entonces su voto permanecerá firme, y las obligaciones que se ha impuesto, serán firmes. 8 Pero si el día en que su marido se entera de ello, se lo prohíbe, entonces él anulará el voto bajo el cual ella está[d], y la declaración imprudente de sus labios con que se ha comprometido, y el Señor la perdonará.
9 Pero el voto de una viuda o de una divorciada, todo aquello por lo cual se ha comprometido, será firme contra ella. 10 Sin embargo, si hizo el voto en casa de su marido, o se impuso una obligación por juramento, 11 y su marido lo oyó, pero no le dijo nada y no se lo prohibió, entonces sus votos serán firmes, y toda obligación que se impuso será firme. 12 Pero si el marido en verdad los anula el día en que se entera de ello, entonces todo lo que salga de los labios de ella en relación con sus votos, o en relación con la obligación de sí misma, no será firme; su marido los ha anulado, y el Señor la perdonará.
13 Todo voto y todo juramento de obligación para humillarse a sí misma, su marido puede confirmarlo o su marido puede anularlo. 14 Pero si en verdad el marido nunca le dice nada a ella[e], entonces confirma todos sus votos o todas sus obligaciones que están sobre ella; las ha confirmado porque no le dijo nada el día en que se enteró de ello. 15 Pero si en verdad él los anula después de haberlos oído, entonces él llevará la culpa de ella.
16 Estos son los estatutos que el Señor mandó a Moisés, entre un marido y su mujer, y entre un padre y su hija que durante su juventud está aún en casa de su padre.
Footnotes
- Números 30:4 Lit., le guarda silencio, y así en el resto del cap.
- Números 30:6 Lit., es de un hombre
- Números 30:6 Lit., sus votos están sobre ella
- Números 30:8 Lit., que está sobre ella
- Números 30:14 Lit., de día en día
Numbers 30
New King James Version
The Law Concerning Vows
30 Then Moses spoke to (A)the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: 2 (B)If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or (C)swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement, he shall not break his word; he shall (D)do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
3 “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, 4 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. 5 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.
6 “If indeed she takes a husband, while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her lips by which she bound herself, 7 and her husband hears it, and makes no response to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself shall stand. 8 But if her husband (E)overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow which she took and what she uttered with her lips, by which she bound herself, and the Lord will release her.
9 “Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman, by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.
10 “If she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by an agreement with an oath, 11 and her husband heard it, and made no response to her and did not overrule her, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand. 12 But if her husband truly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it shall not stand; her husband has made them [b]void, and the Lord will release her. 13 Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her husband may make it void. 14 Now if her husband makes no response whatever to her from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all the agreements that bind her; he confirms them, because he made no response to her on the day that he heard them. 15 But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.”
16 These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter in her youth in her father’s house.
Footnotes
- Numbers 30:4 says nothing to interfere
- Numbers 30:12 annulled or invalidated
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