1 So Moses instructed the Israelites exactly as the Lord had commanded him.
2 Moses said to the heads of the Israelite tribes, “This is what the Lord has commanded:
3 When a man makes a vow to the Lord or binds himself under oath to a pledge, he shall not violate his word, but must fulfill exactly the promise he has uttered.
4 “When a woman makes a vow to the Lord, or binds herself to a pledge, while still in her father’s house in her youth,
5 and her father learns of her vow or the pledge to which she bound herself and says nothing to her about it, then any vow or any pledge to which she bound herself remains valid.