Numbers 30:3
New International Version
“When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge

New Living Translation
“If a young woman makes a vow to the LORD or a pledge under oath while she is still living at her father’s home,

English Standard Version
“If a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth,

Berean Standard Bible
And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

King James Bible
If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

New King James Version
“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,

New American Standard Bible
“And if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and puts herself under a binding obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

NASB 1995
“Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

NASB 1977
“Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

Legacy Standard Bible
“Also if a woman makes a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

Amplified Bible
“Also if a woman makes a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge [of abstinence], while living in her father’s house in her youth,

Christian Standard Bible
“When a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or puts herself under an obligation,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or puts herself under an obligation,

American Standard Version
Also when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when a woman will vow a vow to LORD JEHOVAH and she shall bind a bond on herself in her youth in the house of her father:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose a young woman who is still living with her parents makes a promise to the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a woman vow any thing, and bind herself by an oath, being in her father's house, and but yet a girl in age: if her father knew the vow that she hath promised, and the oath wherewith she hath bound her soul, and held his peace, she shall be bound by the vow:

English Revised Version
Also when a woman voweth a vow unto the LORD, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"A young girl, who still lives in her father's house, might make a vow to the LORD that she will do something or swear an oath that she won't do something.

Good News Translation
When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to give something to the LORD or promises to abstain from something,

International Standard Version
"When a young woman makes a vow to the LORD or pledges herself to an obligation while she still lives in her father's house,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Also when a woman voweth a vow unto the LORD, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

Literal Standard Version
And when a woman vows a vow to YHWH, and has bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,

Majority Standard Bible
And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

New American Bible
“When a woman makes a vow to the LORD, or binds herself to a pledge, while still in her father’s house in her youth,

NET Bible
"If a young woman who is still living in her father's house makes a vow to the LORD or places herself under an obligation,

New Revised Standard Version
When a woman makes a vow to the LORD, or binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house, in her youth,

New Heart English Bible
"Also when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

Webster's Bible Translation
If a woman also shall vow a vow to the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

World English Bible
“Also, when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth,

Young's Literal Translation
'And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Laws Concerning Vows
2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised. 3And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge, 4and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.…

Cross References
Numbers 30:2
If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

Numbers 30:4
and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.


Treasury of Scripture

If a woman also vow a vow to the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

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Numbers 30
1. Vows are not to be broken
3. The exceptions of a maid's vows
6. Of a wife's
9. Of a widow's or her that is divorced














(3) If a woman also . . . --Four distinct cases are contemplated in the following verses in regard to vows taken by women:--(1) that of an unmarried woman, living, in her youth, in the house of her father; (2) that of a woman who is unmarried at the time of making a vow, but enters into the state of marriage before the vow is fulfilled; (3) that of a widow, or of a divorced woman; and (4) that of a married woman. The sanctity and obligations of the fifth commandment are distinctly recognised and enforced in these verses. (See Matthew 15:4-5.) Whenever the vow which the young daughter had made should come to the ears of her father, he had the power either to ratify or to disannul it. If he remained silent the vow was ratified; if he disallowed the vow, the obligation to fulfil it no longer remained in force.

Verse 3. - If a woman vow a vow. The fragmentary nature of this section appears from the fact that, after laying down the general principle of the sacredness of vows, it proceeds to qualify it in three special cases only of vows made by women under authority. That vows made by boys were irreversible is exceedingly unlikely; and indeed it is obvious that many cases must have occurred, neither mentioned here nor in Leviticus 27, in which the obligation could not stand absolute. In her father's house in her youth. Case first, of a girl in her father's house, who had no property of her own, and whose personal services were due to her father.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And if
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

a woman
וְאִשָּׁ֕ה (wə·’iš·šāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

in her father’s
אָבִ֖יהָ (’ā·ḇî·hā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1: Father

house
בְּבֵ֥ית (bə·ḇêṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

during her youth
בִּנְעֻרֶֽיהָ׃ (bin·‘u·re·hā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5271: Youth, the state, the persons

makes
תִדֹּ֥ר (ṯid·dōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5087: To promise

a vow
נֶ֖דֶר (ne·ḏer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5088: A promise, a thing promised

to the LORD
לַיהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

or obligates herself
וְאָסְרָ֥ה (wə·’ā·sə·rāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 631: To yoke, hitch, to fasten, to join battle

by a pledge,
אִסָּ֛ר (’is·sār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 632: A bond, binding obligation


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