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* Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel : This is what Jehovah has commanded about vows : * »If a man makes a vow to Jehovah that he will do something or swears an oath that he will not do something , he must not break his word . He must do everything he said he would do . * »A young girl , who still lives in her father ’s house , might make a vow to Jehovah that she will do something or swear an oath that she will not do something . * »She must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it . * »If her father forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it , she is not required to keep it . Jehovah will forgive her , because her father refused to let her keep it . * »If an unmarried woman makes a vow , whether deliberately or carelessly , or promises to abstain from something , and then marries , * she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it . * »If her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it , she is not required to keep it . Jehovah will forgive her . * »A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something . * »If a married woman makes a vow or promises to abstain from something , * her husband may hear about it but may say nothing and not object . Then her vow or oath must be kept . * »But if her husband cancels it when he hears about it , nothing she said in her vow or oath has to be kept . Her husband has canceled it . Jehovah will free her from this vow or oath . * »A husband decides whether or not his wife has to keep any vow to do something or any oath to do without something . * »If he says nothing to her about it day after day , this means he decided that she must keep her vow or oath . She must keep it because he said nothing to her when he heard about it . * »If he cancels it later , he will suffer the consequences .« * These are the laws Jehovah gave Moses for husbands and wives , and for fathers with young daughters still living at home .

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