Números 30:3

3 “Quando uma moça que ainda vive na casa de seu pai fizer um voto ao SENHOR ou obrigar-se por um compromisso

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 Moisés disse aos chefes das tribos de Israel: “É isto que o SENHOR ordena:

2 Quando um homem fizer um voto ao SENHOR ou um juramento que o obrigar a algum compromisso, não poderá quebrar a sua palavra, mas terá que cumprir tudo o que disse.

3 “Quando uma moça que ainda vive na casa de seu pai fizer um voto ao SENHOR ou obrigar-se por um compromisso

4 e seu pai souber do voto ou compromisso, mas nada lhe disser, então todos os votos e cada um dos compromissos pelos quais se obrigou serão válidos.

5 Mas, se o pai a proibir quando souber do voto, nenhum dos votos ou dos compromissos pelos quais se obrigou será válido; o SENHOR a livrará porque o seu pai a proibiu.