Numeri 30:1

Nova Vulgata

[30:2] et locutus est ad principes tribuum filiorum Israel: "Iste est sermo, quem praecepit Dominus:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Narravitque Moyses filiis Isra�l omnia qu� ei Dominus imperarat.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Narravitque Moyses filiis Isra�l omnia qu� ei Dominus imperarat.

Bible Verse Review
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Numbers 1:4-16, Numbers 7:2, Numbers 34:17-28, Exodus 18:25, Deuteronomy 1:13-17

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes,.... Or the princes of them, who could more easily be convened, and who used to meet on certain occasions, and on whom it lay to see various laws put in execution:

concerning the children of Israel; how they ought to conduct and behave in the following case, it being an affair which concerned them all:

saying, this is the thing which the Lord hath commanded; relating to vows. Aben Ezra is of opinion that this was delivered after the battle with Midian, of which there is an account in the following chapter, and is occasioned by what was said, to the tribes of Gad and Reuben,

Numbers 32:24

do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth; to which they replied,

thy servants will do as my lord commandeth; upon which the nature of a vow, and the manner of keeping it, are observed; but the occasion of it rather seems to be what is said towards the close of the foregoing chapter, Numbers 29:39, that the various sacrifices there directed were to be offered in their season, besides the vows and freewill offerings; and when these were ratified and confirmed, and when null and void, and to be fulfilled or neglected, is the principal business of this chapter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The regulations respecting vows appropriately follow those given respecting sacrifices, since a large proportion of vows would always relate to the presentation of such offerings. Rules had already been given Leviticus 27:0 for the estimation of things vowed to God. It is probable that this fresh legislation dealing especially with vows made by persons in a state of tutelage, was occasioned by some case of practical difficulty that had recently arisen; and it is addressed by Moses to “the heads of the tribes” Numbers 30:1, who would in their judicial capacity have to determine questions on these subjects.

There is no provision in the chapter for annulling vows made by boys and young men; from which it has been inferred that the vows of males were in all cases and circumstances binding.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXX

The law concerning vows of men, 1, 2.

Of women under age, and in what cases the father may annul

them, 3-5.

The vows of a wife, and in what cases the husband may annul

them, 6-8.

The vows of a widow, or divorced woman, in what cases they may

be considered either as confirmed or annulled, 9-15.

Recapitulation of these ordinances, 16.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXX