Numbers 30:2 {3}
Good News Translation
When a man makes a vow to give something to the LORD or takes an oath to abstain from something, he must not break his promise, but must do everything that he said he would.

New Revised Standard Version
When a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Contemporary English Version
When one of you men makes a promise to the LORD, you must keep your word.

New American Bible
When a man makes a vow to the LORD or binds himself under oath to a pledge, he shall not violate his word, but must fulfill exactly the promise he has uttered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

if a man.

Numbers 21:2 But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

Genesis 28:20-22 And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, . . .

Leviticus 27:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give the price according to estimation.

Deuteronomy 23:21,22 When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin. . . .

Judges 11:11,30,31,35,36 Jephte therefore went with the princes of Galaad, and all the people made him their prince. And Jephte spoke all his words before the Lord in Maspha. . . .

Psalm 15:3 He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.

Psalm 56:12 In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee:

Psalm 76:11 Vow ye, and pay to the Lord your God: all you that are round about him bring presents. To him that is terrible,

Psalm 119:106 I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.

Proverbs 20:25 It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.

swear

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

Leviticus 5:4 The person that sweareth, and uttereth with his lips, that he would do either evil or good, and bindeth the same with an oath, and his word: and having forgotten it afterwards understandeth his offence,

Matthew 5:33,34 Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord. . . .

Matthew 14:7-9 Whereupon he promised with an oath, to give her whatsoever she would ask of him. . . .

Acts 23:12 And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul.

2 Corinthians 1:23 But I call God to witness upon my soul that to spare you, I came not any more to Corinth: not because we exercise dominion over your faith: but we are helpers of your joy. For in faith you stand.

2 Corinthians 9:9-11 As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever. . . .

to bind

Numbers 30:3,4,10 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: . . .

Matthew 23:16,18 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .

Acts 23:12,14,21 And when day was come, some of the Jews gathered together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they killed Paul. . . .

break.

Psalm 55:20 He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,

he shall do

Job 22:27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.

Psalm 22:25 With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.

Psalm 50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Psalm 66:13,14 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, . . .

Psalm 116:14,18 I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people: . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:4,5 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it. . . .

Nahum 1:15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: O Juda, keep thy festivals, and pay thy vows: for Belial shall no more pass through thee again, he is utterly cut off.

Context
Laws Concerning Vows
1And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded: 2If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.3If 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:…
Cross References
Matthew 5:33
Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.

Numbers 30:3
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:

Numbers 32:24
Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

Deuteronomy 23:21
When thou hast made a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God will require it. And if thou delay, it shall be imputed to thee for a sin.

Judges 11:35
And when he saw her, he rent his garments, and said: Alas! my daughter, thou hast deceived me, and thou thyself art deceived: for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can do no other thing.

Judges 11:36
And she answered him: My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth to the Lord, do unto me whatsoever thou hast promised, since the victory hath been granted to thee, and revenge of thy enemies.

Psalm 50:14
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Psalm 55:20
He hath stretched forth his hand to repay. They have defiled his covenant,

Ecclesiastes 5:4
If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.

Numbers 30:1
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