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Numbers 30:9

Numbers 30:9 is verse 9 of Numbers chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

World English Bible

“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

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Numbers 30:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

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,

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.

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Cross-references

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

Leviticus 21:7

A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

Luke 2:37

and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

Romans 7:2

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

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