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Numbers 30:4 Explained in Context
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Verse 4. 4And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 30:4 within “A Father or Husband May Confirm or Annul a Woman's Vow,” advances the vow through this speaker, condition, or consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she has bound her soul shall stand.
Read It With
- Numbers 30:3–8
Read Numbers 30:4 with 30:3–8. It within “A Father or Husband May Confirm or Annul a Woman's Vow,” advances the vow through this speaker, condition, or consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she has bound her soul shall stand. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: A young woman in her father's house and a married woman are bound if the responsible man hears and remains silent, but his prompt annulment cancels the vow and the LORD forgives her; a prior vow carries into marriage unless the husband annuls it when heard.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 30:4 within “A Father or Husband May Confirm or Annul a Woman's Vow,” advances the vow through this speaker, condition, or consequence; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she has bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she has bound her soul shall stand. Its responsible force depends on 30:3–8; isolated from “A Father or Husband May Confirm or Annul a Woman's Vow,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 30:3–8 — A Father or Husband May Confirm or Annul a Woman's VowSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 30:3–8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 30:3–8
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