Números 30:1

1 Leyes acerca de votos
Moisés mandó llamar a los jefes de las tribus de Israel y les dijo: «Esto es lo que el Señor
ha ordenado:

Números 30:1 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 30:1

And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes
Or the princes of them, who could more easily be convened, and who used to meet on certain occasions, and on whom it lay to see various laws put in execution:

concerning the children of Israel;
how they ought to conduct and behave in the following case, it being an affair which concerned them all:

saying, this is the thing which the Lord hath commanded;
relating to vows. Aben Ezra is of opinion that this was delivered after the battle with Midian, of which there is an account in the following chapter, and is occasioned by what was said, to the tribes of Gad and Reuben, ( Numbers 32:24 Numbers 32:25 )

do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth;
to which they replied,

thy servants will do as my lord commandeth;
upon which the nature of a vow, and the manner of keeping it, are observed; but the occasion of it rather seems to be what is said towards the close of the foregoing chapter, ( Numbers 29:39 ) , that the various sacrifices there directed were to be offered in their season, besides the vows and freewill offerings; and when these were ratified and confirmed, and when null and void, and to be fulfilled or neglected, is the principal business of this chapter.

Números 30:1 In-Context

1 Leyes acerca de votos
Moisés mandó llamar a los jefes de las tribus de Israel y les dijo: «Esto es lo que el Señor
ha ordenado:

2 un hombre que hace un voto al Señor
o una promesa bajo juramento jamás deberá faltar a su palabra. Tiene que cumplir exactamente con lo que dijo que haría.

3 »Si una mujer joven hace un voto al Señor
o una promesa bajo juramento, mientras todavía vive en la casa de su padre,

4 y su padre se entera del voto o de la promesa y no se opone, entonces todos sus votos y todas sus promesas siguen en pie.

5 Sin embargo, si su padre, el día que se entera, se niega a darle permiso para que cumpla el voto o la promesa, quedarán anulados todos sus votos y todas sus promesas. El Señor
la perdonará porque su padre no le permitió cumplirlos.