1 Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, "This is what the LORD has commanded:
2 When a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath that puts himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must carry out everything that has come from his mouth.
3 "When a woman makes a vow to the LORD and puts herself under an obligation while still young and living in her father's house,
4 and her father hears of her vow and the obligation she has taken on herself but keeps silent toward her, then every one of her vows stands, and every obligation she has taken on herself stands.
5 But if her father overrules her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or obligations she has taken on herself will stand; the LORD will forgive her, because her father overruled her.
6 "If she marries while her vows are still on her, or a careless promise from her lips by which she bound herself,
7 and her husband hears of it but keeps silent toward her on the day he hears, then her vows stand, and the obligations she has taken on herself stand.
8 But if her husband overrules her on the day he hears of it, he cancels the vow that is on her and the careless promise from her lips by which she bound herself, and the LORD will forgive her.
9 "Every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, every obligation she has taken on herself, will stand against her.
10 "If a woman living in her husband's house makes a vow or puts herself under an obligation by an oath,
11 and her husband hears of it but keeps silent toward her and does not overrule her, then all her vows stand, and every obligation she has taken on herself stands.
12 But if her husband plainly cancels them on the day he hears them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or the obligation on herself, will stand. Her husband has cancelled them, and the LORD will forgive her.
13 Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow and any sworn obligation to humble herself.
14 If her husband says nothing at all to her from one day to the next, he confirms all her vows and all the obligations that are on her; he has confirmed them by keeping silent toward her on the day he heard of them.
15 But if he cancels them some time after he has heard of them, he will bear her iniquity."
16 These are the statutes the LORD commanded Moses concerning a husband and his wife, and a father and his daughter while she is young and living in her father's house.