Liber Numeri 30

1 et locutus est ad principes tribuum filiorum Israel: Iste est sermo quem præcepit Dominus:

And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD has commanded.

2 Si quis virorum votum Domino voverit, aut se constrinxerit iuramento: non faciet irritum verbum suum, sed omne quod promisit, implebit.

If a man vow a vow to the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

3 Mulier si quippiam voverit, et se constrinxerit iuramento, quæ est in domo patris sui, et in ætate adhuc puellari: si cognoverit pater votum quod pollicita est, et iuramentum quo obligavit animam suam, et tacuerit, voti rea erit:

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;

4 quidquid pollicita est et iuravit, opere complebit.

And her father hear her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

5 Sin autem statim ut audierit, contradixerit pater: et vota et iuramenta eius irrita erunt, nec obnoxia tenebitur sponsioni, eo quod contradixerit pater.

But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears; not any of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

6 Si maritum habuerit, et voverit aliquid, et semel de ore eius verbum egrediens animam eius obligaverit iuramento:

And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered something out of her lips, with which she bound her soul;

7 quo die audierit vir, et non contradixerit, voti rea erit, reddetque quodcumque promiserat.

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she bound her soul shall stand.

8 Sin autem audiens statim contradixerit, et irritas fecerit pollicitationes eius, verbaque quibus obstrinxerat animam suam: propitius erit ei Dominus.

But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, with which she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

9 Vidua et repudiata quidquid voverint, reddent.

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, with which they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

10 Uxor in domo viri cum se voto constrinxerit et iuramento,

And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

11 si audierit vir, et tacuerit, nec contradixerit sponsioni, reddet quodcumque promiserat.

And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

12 Sin autem extemplo contradixerit, non tenebitur promissionis rea: quia maritus contradixit: et Dominus ei propitius erit.

But if her husband has utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.

13 Si voverit, et iuramento se constrinxerit, ut per ieiunium, vel ceterarum rerum abstinentiam affligat animam suam, in arbitrio viri erit ut faciat, sive non faciat.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

14 Quod si audiens vir tacuerit, et in alteram diem distulerit sententiam: quidquid voverat atque promiserat, reddet: quia statim ut audivit, tacuit.

But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her: he confirms them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

15 Sin autem contradixerit postquam rescivit, portabit ipse iniquitatem eius.

But if he shall any ways make them void after that he has heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

16 Istæ sunt leges, quas constituit Dominus Moysi inter virum et uxorem, inter patrem et filiam, quæ in puellari adhuc ætate est, vel quæ manet in parentis domo.

These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.