_AND MOSES SPAKE UNTO THE HEADS OF THE TRIBES CONCERNING THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING, THIS IS THE THING WHICH THE LORD HATH COMMANDED._ This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded. The subject of this chapter relates to vowing, which seems to have been an ancient usage, allowed by the law to... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF A MAN VOW A VOW UNTO 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 PROCEEDETH OUT OF HIS MOUTH._ If a man vow a vow. A mere secret purpose of the mind was not enough to constitute a vow: it had to be actually expressed in... [ Continue Reading ]
_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;_ A woman ... in her father's house in her youth. Girls only are specified; but minors of the other sex, who resided under the paternal roof, were included, according to Jewish writers, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HER FATHER HEAR HER VOW, AND HER BOND WHEREWITH SHE HATH BOUND HER SOUL, AND HER FATHER SHALL HOLD HIS PEACE AT HER: THEN ALL HER VOWS SHALL STAND, AND EVERY BOND WHEREWITH SHE HATH BOUND HER SOUL SHALL STAND._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT EVERY VOW OF A WIDOW, AND OF HER THAT IS DIVORCED, WHEREWITH THEY HAVE BOUND THEIR SOULS, SHALL STAND AGAINST HER._ Every vow of a widow. In the case of a married woman who, in the event of a separation from her husband, or of his death, returned, as was not uncommon, to her father's house, a... [ Continue Reading ]