³ `And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,

⁴ and her father hath heard her vow, and her bond which she hath bound on her soul, and her father hath kept silent at her, then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established.

^{5 Ref} `And if her father hath disallowed her in the day of his hearing, none of her vows and her bonds which she hath bound on her soul is established, and Jehovah is propitious to her, for her father hath disallowed her.

^{6 Ref} `And if she be at all to a husband, and her vows `are' on her, or a wrongful utterance `on' her lips, which she hath bound on her soul,

⁷ and her husband hath heard, and in the day of his hearing, he hath kept silent at her, then have her vows been established, and her bonds which she hath bound on her soul are established.

^{8 Ref} `And if in the day of her husband's hearing he disalloweth her, then he hath broken her vow which `is' on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she hath bound on her soul, and Jehovah is propitious to her.

^{9 Ref} `As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.

¹⁰ `And if `in' the house of her husband she hath vowed, or hath bound a bond on her soul with an oath,

¹¹ and her husband hath heard, and hath kept silent at her -- he hath not disallowed her -- then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established.

^{12 Ref} `And if her husband doth certainly break them in the day of his hearing, none of the outgoing of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, is established -- her husband hath broken them -- and Jehovah is propitious to her.

^{13 Ref} `Every vow and every oath -- a bond to humble a soul -- her husband doth establish it, or her husband doth break it;