1. And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying: This is the thing that the Lord has commanded.
2. If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself with a bond, he will not break his word. He will do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
3. If a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by a bond, while in her father’s house in her youth,
4. and her father hears her vow and her bond with which she has bound herself, and her father is silent to her, then all her vows will stand, and every bond with which she has bound herself will stand.
5. But if her father restrains her in the day he hears, none of her vows or her bonds with which she has bound herself will stand, and the Lord will forgive her, because her father restrained her.