Números 30:3

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