⁹ But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

⁷ They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.

³⁷ She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.

² For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.