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and the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will release her from it, since her father opposed her.</p> <p><span id="v04030007" class="ver">7</span>“If she marries while under a vow or under a rash pledge to which she bound herself, <span id="v04030008" class="ver">8</span>and her husband learns of it, yet says nothing to her on the day he learns it, then the vows or the pledges to which she bound herself remain valid. <span id="v04030009" class="ver">9</span>But if on the day her husband learns of it he opposes her, he thereby annuls the vow she had made or the rash pledge to which she had bound herself, and the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will release her from it. <span id="v04030010" class="ver">10</span>(The vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, however, any pledge to which such a woman binds herself, is valid.)</p> <p><span id="v04030011" class="ver">11</span>“If it is in her husband’s house<a id="rfn04030011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04030011-1">*</a> that she makes a vow or binds herself under oath to a pledge, <span id="v04030012" class="ver">12</span>and her husband learns of it yet says nothing to her to oppose her, then all her vows remain valid or any pledge to which she has bound herself. <span id="v04030013" class="ver">13</span>But if on the day he learns of them her husband annuls them, then whatever she has expressly promised in her vows or in her pledge becomes invalid; since her husband has annulled them, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will release her from them.</p> <p><span id="v04030014" class="ver">14</span>“Any vow or any pledge that she makes under oath to humble herself, her husband may either confirm or annul. <span id="v04030015" class="ver">15</span>But if her husband, day after day, says nothing at all to her, he thereby confirms all her vows or all the pledges incumbent upon her; he has confirmed them, because on the day he learned of them he said nothing to her. <span id="v04030016" class="ver">16</span>If, however, he annuls them<a id="rfn04030016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn04030016-1">*</a> some time after he first learned of them, he will be responsible for her guilt.”</p> <p><span id="v04030017" class="ver">17</span>These are the statutes which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> commanded Moses concerning a husband and his wife, as well as a father and his daughter while she is still in her youth in her father’s house.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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