Deuteronomy 23:21

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Deuteronomy 23:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.

21 If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

22 But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.

23 Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

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Deuteronomy 23:18

You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

Genesis 35:1

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

Genesis 35:3

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Leviticus 27:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,

Leviticus 27:3

if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.

Leviticus 27:4

Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

Leviticus 27:5

And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Leviticus 27:6

Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.

Leviticus 27:7

And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.

Leviticus 27:8

But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

Leviticus 27:9

If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.

Leviticus 27:10

He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

Leviticus 27:11

But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.

Leviticus 27:12

The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.

Leviticus 27:13

If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.

Leviticus 27:14

Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.

Leviticus 27:15

But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.

Leviticus 27:16

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

Leviticus 27:17

If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.

Leviticus 27:18

But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.

Leviticus 27:19

And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.

Leviticus 27:20

If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.

Leviticus 27:21

When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.

Leviticus 27:22

Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,

Leviticus 27:23

then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:24

In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.

Leviticus 27:25

Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Leviticus 27:26

But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.

Leviticus 27:27

But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Leviticus 27:28

Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:29

No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.

Leviticus 27:30

Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:31

If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.

Leviticus 27:32

Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:33

He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”

Leviticus 27:34

These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

Numbers 30:2

If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

Numbers 30:3

And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

Numbers 30:4

and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Numbers 30:5

But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.

Numbers 30:6

If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,

Numbers 30:7

and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Numbers 30:8

But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.

Numbers 30:9

Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

Numbers 30:10

If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

Numbers 30:11

and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Numbers 30:12

But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.

Numbers 30:13

Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

Numbers 30:14

But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.

Numbers 30:15

But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”

Numbers 30:16

These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.

Psalms 56:12

Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

Psalms 66:13

I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—

Psalms 66:14

the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

Psalms 76:11

Make and fulfill your vows to the LORD your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.

Psalms 116:18

I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people,

Ecclesiastes 5:4

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

Ecclesiastes 5:5

It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.

Jonah 1:16

Then the men feared the LORD greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to Him.

Jonah 2:9

But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”

Nahum 1:15

Look to the mountains— the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.