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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Numbers 30 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/30.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Numbers 30</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/29.htm" title="Numbers 29">◄</a> Numbers 30 <a href="../numbers/31.htm" title="Numbers 31">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Making Promises to the <span class="nd">Lord</span></h3><p class="par"><span class="v4_30_1"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.1" class="v4_30_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses to say to Israel's tribal leaders:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_30_2"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.2" class="v4_30_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Num.30.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When one of you men makes a promise to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>,<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.30.2!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> you must keep your word.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_30_3"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.3" class="v4_30_3">3</span>Suppose a young woman who is still living with her parents makes a promise to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_30_4"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.4" class="v4_30_4">4</span>If her father hears about it and says nothing, she must keep her promise. </span><span class="v4_30_5"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.5" class="v4_30_5">5</span>But if he hears about it and objects, then she no longer has to keep her promise. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will forgive her, because her father did not agree with the promise.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_30_6"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.6-Num.30.7" class="v4_30_6">6-7</span>Suppose a woman makes a promise to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> and then gets married. If her husband later hears about the promise but says nothing, she must do what she said, whether she meant it or not. </span><span class="v4_30_8"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.8" class="v4_30_8">8</span>But if her husband hears about the promise and objects, she no longer has to keep it, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will forgive her.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_30_9"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.9" class="v4_30_9">9</span>Widows and divorced women must keep every promise they make to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_30_10"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.10" class="v4_30_10">10</span>Suppose a married woman makes a promise to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_30_11"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.11" class="v4_30_11">11</span>If her husband hears about the promise and says nothing, she must do what she said. </span><span class="v4_30_12"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.12" class="v4_30_12">12</span>But if he hears about the promise and does object, she no longer has to keep it. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will forgive her, because her husband would not allow her to keep the promise. </span><span class="v4_30_13"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.13" class="v4_30_13">13</span>Her husband has the final say about any promises she makes to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v4_30_14"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.14" class="v4_30_14">14</span>If her husband hears about a promise and says nothing about it for a whole day, she must do what she said—since he did not object, the promise must be kept. </span><span class="v4_30_15"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.15" class="v4_30_15">15</span>But if he waits until the next day to stop her from keeping her promise, he is the one who must be punished.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_30_16"><span class="reftext" id="Num.30.16" class="v4_30_16">16</span>These are the laws that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave Moses about husbands and wives, and about young daughters who still live at home.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a promise to the <char style="nd">Lord</char>: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Either the promise of a gift or the promise to do something.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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