THE CONTINUAL MAKING AND CONFIRMATION OF VOWS (WITH THEIR PEACE/WELLBEING OFFERINGS). BUT WHILE DEDICATION WAS GOOD AND WAS REQUIRED, IT ALSO HAD TO BE CONTROLLED (NUMBERS 30:1). Vows were an essential part of ancient life. By them men demonstrated their dedication to their gods, and it was no diff... [ Continue Reading ]
(I) A YOUNG UNMARRIED WOMAN LIVING IN HER FATHER'S HOUSE (NUMBERS 30:3). Numbers 30:3 ‘Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound herself, and her father holds... [ Continue Reading ]
(II) A YOUNG UNMARRIED WOMAN WHO MAKES A VOW AND THEN MARRIES A HUSBAND (NUMBERS 30:6) Numbers 30:6 ‘And if she be betrothed/married to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound herself, and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in... [ Continue Reading ]
(III) A VOW MADE BY A WIDOW OR A DIVORCED WOMAN (NUMBERS 30:9). Numbers 30:9 ‘But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, even everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.' The vow made by a widow or a divorced woman was seen as being as binding as an adult male'... [ Continue Reading ]
(IV) A VOW MADE BY A MARRIED WOMAN WITHOUT HER HUSBAND'S KNOWLEDGE (NUMBERS 30:10). Numbers 30:10 ‘And if she (a woman) vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not; then all her vows shall stan... [ Continue Reading ]
A SUMMARY (NUMBERS 30:13). Numbers 30:13 ‘Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. 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... [ Continue Reading ]