Números 30:3

3 Asimismo, si una mujer hace un voto al SEÑOR, y se impone una obligación en su juventud estando en casa de su padre,

Números 30:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 30:3

If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord
Who has not passed thirteen years, as the Targum of Jonathan:

[and] bind [herself] by a bond;
lay herself under obligation to perform her vow by an oath: being in her father's house; unto the twelfth year, as the same Targum; that is, that is under his care, tuition, and jurisdiction, whether she literally, or properly speaking, is in the house or no at the time she vows; so Jarchi interprets it of her being in the power of her father, though not in his house, she being not at age to be at her own disposal, but at his: wherefore it is added,

in her youth;
which, as the same writer explains it, signifies that she is

``neither a little one, nor at age; for a little one's vow is no vow, and one at age is not in the power of her father to make void her vow: who is a little one? our Rabbins say, one of eleven years of age and one day, her vows are examined, whether she knows on whose account she vows and consecrates, or devotes anything; one vows a vow that is twelve years and one day old, there is no need to examine them.''

He seems to refer to a passage in the Misnah ^F20,

``a daughter of eleven years and one day, her vows are examined; a daughter of twelve years and one day, her vows are firm, but they are to be examined through the whole twelfth year.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Niddah, c. 5. sect. 6.

Números 30:3 In-Context

1 Entonces Moisés habló a los jefes de las tribus de los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Esto es lo que el SEÑOR ha ordenado.

2 Si un hombre hace un voto al SEÑOR, o hace un juramento para imponerse una obligación, no faltará a su palabra; hará conforme a todo lo que salga de su boca.

3 Asimismo, si una mujer hace un voto al SEÑOR, y se impone una obligación en su juventud estando en casa de su padre,

4 y su padre escucha su voto y la obligación que se ha impuesto, y su padre no le dice nada, entonces todos los votos de ella serán firmes, y toda obligación que se ha impuesto será firme.

5 Pero si su padre se lo prohíbe el día en que se entera de ello, ninguno de sus votos ni las obligaciones que se ha impuesto serán firmes. El SEÑOR la perdonará porque su padre se lo prohibió.