1 Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel: ‘This is what the Lord commands:
2 when a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.
3 ‘When a young woman still living in her father’s household makes a vow to the Lord or binds herself by a pledge
4 and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she bound herself will stand.
5 But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she bound herself will stand; the Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her.
6 ‘If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she binds herself
7 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows or the pledges by which she bound herself will stand.