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Brenton's Septuagint

Numbers 30:15

But if he be wholly silent at her from day to day, then shall he bind upon her all her vows; and he shall confirm to her the obligations which she has bound upon herself, because he held his peace at her in the day in which he heard her.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Guiltiness;   Innocence-Guilt;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Vows;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Vow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Vow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Vows;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Woman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Mishnah;   Nedarim;   Sidra;   Vows;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
King James Version
But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Lexham English Bible
But if he indeed nullifies them after he hears them, then he will bear her guilt."
English Standard Version
But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity."
New Century Version
But if he cancels them long after he heard about them, he is responsible if she breaks her promise."
New English Translation
But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity."
Amplified Bible
"But if he indeed nullifies them after he hears of them, then he shall be responsible for and bear her guilt [for breaking her promise]."
New American Standard Bible
"However, if he actually annuls them after he has heard them, then he shall bear the responsibility for her guilt."
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if he breake them after that he hath heard them, then shall he beare her iniquitie.
Legacy Standard Bible
But if he indeed annuls them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt."
Contemporary English Version
But if he waits until the next day to stop her from keeping her promise, he is the one who must be punished.
Complete Jewish Bible
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.
Darby Translation
But if he in any way annul them after he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
Easy-to-Read Version
But if the husband hears about the promises and stops them, he is responsible for breaking her promises."
George Lamsa Translation
But if he shall make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
Good News Translation
But if he later annuls the vow, he must suffer the consequences for the failure to fulfill the vow.
Christian Standard Bible®
But if he cancels them after he hears about them, he will be responsible for her commitment.”
Literal Translation
And if he at all breaks them after he hears, then he has borne her iniquity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf he disanulle the after yt he hath herde the, then shal he take awaie hir mi?dede.
American Standard Version
But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
Bible in Basic English
But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if he breake them, after that he hath hearde them, he shall beare her sinne hym selfe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he causeth all her vows to stand, or all her bonds, which are upon her; he hath let them stand, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
King James Version (1611)
But if hee shall any wayes make them voyd after that he hath heard them, then he shall beare her iniquitie.
English Revised Version
But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.
Berean Standard Bible
But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe if the hosebonde ayenseide aftir that he wiste, he schal bere his wickidnesse.
Young's Literal Translation
and if he doth at all break them after his hearing, then he hath borne her iniquity.'
Update Bible Version
But if he shall make them null and void after he has heard them [and held his peace], then he shall bear her iniquity.
Webster's Bible Translation
But if he shall any way make them void after that he hath heard [them]; then he shall bear her iniquity.
World English Bible
But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.
New King James Version
But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt."
New Living Translation
If he waits more than a day and then tries to nullify a vow or pledge, he will be punished for her guilt."
New Life Bible
But if he will not allow her to keep her promises after he has heard of them, then her guilt will be on him."
New Revised Standard
But if he nullifies them some time after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her guilt.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if he, do make them of none effect, after that he hath heard them, then shall he bear her iniquity.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-16) But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.
Revised Standard Version
But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But if he indeed annuls them after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt."

Contextual Overview

3 Whatsoever man shall vow a vow to the Lord, or swear an oath, or bind himself with an obligation upon his soul, he shall not break his word; all that shall come out of his mouth he shall do. 4 And if a woman shall vow a vow to the Lord, or bind herself with an obligation in her youth in her father’s house; and her father should hear her vows and her obligations, wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father should hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, 5 and all the obligations with which she has bound her soul, shall remain to her. 6 But if her father straitly forbid her in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her. 7 But if she should be indeed married, and her vows be upon her according to the utterance of her lips, in respect of the obligations which she has contracted upon her soul; 8 and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her in the day in which he should hear, then thus shall all her vows be binding, and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand. 9 But if her husband should straitly forbid her in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless. 10 And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatsoever she shall bind upon her soul, shall stand to her. 11 And if her vow be made in the house of her husband, or the obligation upon her soul with an oath, 12 and her husband should hear, and hold his peace at her, and not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and all the obligations which she contracted against her soul, shall stand against her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he shall bear: Numbers 30:5, Numbers 30:8, Numbers 30:12, Leviticus 5:1, Galatians 3:28

Reciprocal: Romans 4:14 - made

Cross-References

Genesis 30:9
And Lea saw that she ceased from bearing, and she took Zelpha her maid, and gave her to Jacob for a wife; and he went in to her.
Genesis 30:10
And Zelpha the maid of Lea conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
Numbers 16:13
Is it a little thing that thou hast brought us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, and that thou altogether rulest over us?
Isaiah 7:13
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do ye contend against the Lord?
Ezekiel 16:47
Yet notwithstanding thou hast not walked in their ways, neither hast thou done according to their iniquities within a little, but thou hast exceeded them in all thy ways.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if he shall any ways make them void, after that he hath heard them,.... Some way or other expressing his dislike of them; not at the time he heard them, but some time afterwards; one day after, as the Targum of Jonathan:

then he shall bear his iniquity: be accountable for the breach of the vow, the sin shall be reckoned to him, and he shall bear the punishment of it, because he ought to have declared is disapprobation of it sooner; and it may be, his doing it when he did was only in a spirit of contradiction, or through covetousness; and it would have been more advisable to have let the vow stand, and therefore acted a criminal part, and so was answerable for it; the Targum of Jonathan explains it,

"her husband or her father shall bear her iniquity,''

supposing her not to be at age: Aben Ezra gives the reason of it, because she is in his power.


 
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