fra Biblica1Moses overbragte israelitterne alle disse forskrifter, som Herren havde givet ham.
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2Moses gav stammelederne følgende instrukser: „Herren har befalet:3Hvis en mand aflægger Herren et højtideligt løfte eller ved en ed forpligter sig til afholdenhed på et bestemt område, så må han ikke bryde sit løfte. Hans løfte eller ed står fast.4Hvis en ugift kvinde, der endnu bor hjemme i sin fars hus, aflægger et løfte og forpligter sig til afholdenhed på et bestemt område,5og hvis hendes far efter at være gjort bekendt med løftet, ikke gør indsigelse, står løftet ved magt.6Men hvis hendes far, samme dag han hører om det, nægter at godkende hendes løfte, træder løftet ud af kraft. Da vil Herren tilgive hende, for hendes far har modsat sig løftet.7Hvis en kvinde gifter sig, mens hun stadig er forpligtet af et løfte, hun har aflagt uden at tænke så meget over konsekvenserne,8og hendes mand ikke gør indsigelse den dag, han bliver gjort bekendt med løftet, står løftet ved magt.9Men hvis hendes mand samme dag nægter at godkende løftet, træder det ud af kraft, og Herren vil tilgive hende.10Hvis kvinden er enke eller fraskilt, vil et løfte hun har aflagt, stå ved magt.11Hvis kvinden allerede er gift og bor sammen med sin mand, når hun aflægger sit løfte,12og manden bliver gjort bekendt med løftet uden at gøre indsigelse, står løftet ved magt.13Men hvis han modsætter sig løftet, samme dag han hører om det, træder løftet ud af kraft, og Herren vil tilgive hende.14Hendes mand kan altså enten bekræfte eller afkræfte et løfte eller en forpligtelse til afholdenhed, som hans kone ved en ed har fremsagt,15men hvis han ikke gør indsigelse den samme dag, han hører om det, har han dermed godkendt løftet som gyldigt.16Hvis han overskrider denne frist og senere får hende til at bryde sit løftet, bliver det hans ansvar, og straffen for løftebruddet rammer ham selv.”17Det var de regler, Herren gav Moses om forholdet mellem en mand og hans kone og mellem en far og hans ugifte datter.
3“If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth,4and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.5But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her.6“If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself, (Salm 56,12)7and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.8But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the Lord will forgive her. (4.Mos 30,6; 4.Mos 30,12)9(But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.)10And if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath,11and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.12But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the Lord will forgive her. (4.Mos 30,8)13Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself,[1] her husband may establish,[2] or her husband may make void.14But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them.15But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity.” (3.Mos 5,1)16These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father’s house.