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Numbers 30:8

Numbers 30:8 is verse 8 of Numbers chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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King James Version

But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.

World English Bible

But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

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Numbers 30:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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.

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.

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

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

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:23

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.

Ephesians 5:24

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

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