Numbers 30:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

If a man vowe vnto the Lorde, or sweare an othe to bynde his soule: he shall not go backe with his worde, but shall fulfyll all that is proceeded out of his mouth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל־רָאשֵׁ֣י הַמַּטּ֔וֹת לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר זֶ֣ה הַדָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֖ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

wa-yədabbēr Mōšeh ʾel-rāʾšê ham-maṭṭôt li-ḇnê Yiśrāʾēl lēʾmōr zeh had-dāḇār ʾăšer ṣiwwāh YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wa-yədabbēr*: waw consecutive + Piel imperfect, 3rd masc sing - and he spoke
• *Mōšeh*: proper noun, masc sing - Moses
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/unto
• *rāʾšê*: masculine plural construct of *rōʾš* - heads of
• *ham-maṭṭôt*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the tribes
• *li-ḇnê*: preposition + masculine plural construct - for the sons of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *lēʾmōr*: Qal infinitive construct - saying
• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masc sing - this
• *had-dāḇār*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the word/thing
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
• *ṣiwwāh*: Piel perfect, 3rd masc sing - commanded
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh

Word Meanings

• *wa-yədabbēr*: and he spoke/said/declared
• *rāʾšê*: heads/chiefs/leaders of
• *ham-maṭṭôt*: the tribes/staffs/branches
• *had-dāḇār*: the word/matter/thing/command

Referenced Verses

• Ps 22:25 : 25 My prayse shalbe of thee in the great congregation: I wyll perfourme my vowes in the syght of them that feare hym.
• Ps 50:14 : 14 Offer vnto God prayse: and pay thy vowes vnto the most hyghest.
• Job 22:27 : 27 Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt kepe thy promises.
• Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, certayne of the Iewes gathered them selues together, and made a vowe, saying that they woulde neither eate nor drynke, tyl they had kylled Paul.
• Ps 116:14 : 14 I wyll pay my vowes nowe vnto God: in the presence of all his people.
• Ps 116:18 : 18 I wyll pay my vowes vnto God in the sight of all his people:
• Prov 20:25 : 25 It is a snare for a man to deuour that whiche is holy, and after the vowe to make inquirie.
• Eccl 5:4-5 : 4 If thou make a vowe vnto God, be not slacke to perfourme it: As for foolish vowes he hath no pleasure in them: yf thou promise any thyng, pay it. 5 For better is it that thou make no vowe, then that thou shouldest promise and not pay.
• Nah 1:15 : 15 Behold vpon the mountaynes the feete of him that bringeth good tidinges, that preacheth peace: kepe thy festiual dayes O Iuda, paye thy vowes: for the wicked tiraunt shal hereafter passe no more through thee, he is vtterly cut of.
• Ps 66:13-14 : 13 I wyll go into thy house with burnt offeringes: and I wyll pay thee my vowes 14 whiche I promised with my lippes, and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble.
• Lev 5:4 : 4 Either if a soule sweare, and pronounceth with his lippes to do euill or to do good, whatsoeuer it be that a man shall pronounce with an othe, and the thyng be hyd from hym, and commeth to the knowledge of it, and hath offended in one of these:
• Num 30:3-4 : 3 If a woman also vowe a vowe vnto the Lorde, & bynde her selfe being in her fathers house in the tyme of her youth: 4 And her father heare her vowe and bonde which she hath made vpon her soule, & holde his peace therto: then all her vowes and bondes which she hath made vpo her soule, shal stande in effect.
• Num 30:10 : 10 If she vowed in her husbandes house, or bounde her soule with an othe:
• Deut 23:21-23 : 21 When thou hast vowed a vowe vnto the Lorde thy God, thou shalt not flacke to pay it: For the Lorde thy God wyll surely require it of thee, and it shalbe sinne in thee. 22 If thou shalt leaue bowyng, it shalbe no sinne in thee. 23 But that whiche is once gone out of thy lippes, thou must kepe and do, accordyng as thou hast vowed vnto the Lorde thy God of a freewyll, and as thou hast spoken with thy mouth.
• Judg 11:11 : 11 Then Iephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and ye people made hym head & captayne ouer them: And Iephthah rehearsed al his wordes before the Lorde in Mispah.
• Judg 11:30-31 : 30 And Iephthah vowed a vowe vnto ye Lorde, & sayd: If thou shalt deliuer the children of Ammon into my handes, 31 Then that thing that commeth out of the doores of my house against me, whe I come home in peace from the children of Ammon, shalbe the Lordes, and I will offer it vp for a burnt offering.
• Judg 11:35-36 : 35 And when he sawe her, he rent his clotes, & sayde: Alas my daughter, thou hast brought me lowe, & art one of them that troubleth me: For I haue opened my mouth vnto the Lorde, and cannot go backe. 36 And she sayde vnto him: My father, if thou haue opened thy mouth vnto the Lorde, then do with me according to it that proceeded out of thy mouth, for as much as the Lorde hath auenged thee of thyne enemies ye children of Ammon.
• Judg 11:39 : 39 And after the ende of two monethes, she turned agayne vnto her father, whiche dyd with her according to his vowe whiche he had vowed, & she had knowne no man: And it grewe to a custome in Israel,
• Lev 27:2-9 : 2 Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them: If any man wyl make a singuler vowe of a person vnto the Lorde, by thy estimation, 3 Then thy estimation shalbe thus: Of the male from twentie yeres olde vnto sixtie, shalbe by thy estimation fiftie sicles of siluer, after the sicle of the sanctuarie: 4 And if it be a female, then thy valuation shalbe thirtie sicles. 5 And from fiue yeres to twentie, thy valuation shalbe of the male twentie sicles, and of the female ten sicles. 6 And from a moneth vnto fiue yeres, thy estimation shalbe of the male at fiue sicles of siluer, and the female at three sicles of siluer. 7 And from sixtie yeres olde and aboue, if he be a male, then thy price shalbe fifteene sicles, and for the female ten sicles. 8 But if he be poorer then thou hast esteemed hym, he shall present hym selfe before the priest, and the priest shall value hym: accordyng as the hande of hym that vowed is able to get, euen so shall the priest value hym. 9 If it be a beast of which men bryng an offeryng vnto the Lorde, all that any man geueth of such vnto the Lord, shalbe holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor chaunge it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: And if he chaunge beast for beast, then both the same beast and it also wherwith it was chaunged, shalbe holy. 11 If it be any maner of vncleane beast, of which men do not offer a sacrifice vnto the Lorde, he shall set the beast before the priest: 12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: and as the priest setteth it, so shall it be. 13 But if he wyll bye it agayne, he shall geue the fift part more aboue that it was set at. 14 If any man dedicate his house to be holy vnto the Lorde, the priest shall set it, whether it be good or bad: and as the priest hath set it, so shall it stande. 15 And when he that sanctified it wyll redeeme his house, let hym geue the fift part of the money that it was iudged at therto, and it shalbe his. 16 If a man halowe a peece of his inherited lande vnto the Lorde, thou shalt value it accordyng to the seede therof: An Homer of barly seede shalbe set at fiftie sicles of siluer. 17 If he halowe his fielde immediatly fro the yere of Iubilee, it shalbe worth accordyng as thou doest esteeme it. 18 But and if he halowe his fielde after the Iubilee, the priest shall recken vnto hym the money, accordyng to the number of the yeres that remayne, vnto the yeres of Iublilee folowyng, and it shalbe abated by thy estimation. 19 If he that consecrated the fielde wyll redeeme it agayne, let hym put the fift part of the price that thou didst value it at therunto, and it shalbe his. 20 And if he wyll not redeeme the fielde, but selleth the fielde to another man: he that vowed may redeeme it no more. 21 But when the fielde goeth out in the yere of Iubilee, and it shalbe holy vnto the Lord, euen as a fielde seperate from common vses, and it shalbe the priestes possession. 22 If a man sanctifie vnto the Lorde a fielde which he hath bought, and is not of the grounde of his inheritaunce: 23 The priest shal recken vnto him what it is worth vnto the yere of Iubilee, and he shall geue the price that it is set at the same day, as a thyng consecrate vnto the Lorde. 24 And in the yere of Iubilee, the fielde shall returne vnto him of whom it was bought, to hym whose inheritaunce of lande it was. 25 And all thy valuation shalbe according to the sicle of the sanctuarie: One sicle contayneth twentie gerahs. 26 But the first borne of the beastes that is the Lordes first borne, may no man sanctifie, whether it be oxe or sheepe, for it is the Lordes alredie. 27 If it be an vncleane beast, he shall redeeme it as thou shalt set it at, and geue the fift part more therto: Or if it be not redeemed, it shalbe solde accordyng to thy estimation. 28 Notwithstandyng, nothyng seperate from the common vse that a man doth seperate vnto the Lorde of all that he hath, whether it be man or beast, or lande of his inheritaunce, may be solde or redeemed: for euery thyng seperate from the common vse, is most holy vnto the Lorde. 29 Nothing seperate from the common vse, whiche shalbe seperate from man, shalbe redeemed, but dye the death. 30 Euery tithe of the lande also, both of the seede of the lande, and of the fruite of the trees, is the Lordes, and is sanctified vnto the Lorde. 31 And if a man wyll redeeme ought of his tithes, let hym adde the fift part thereto. 32 And euery tythe of oxe and of sheepe, and of euery beast that goeth vnder the rod, euen euery tenth shalbe holy vnto the Lorde. 33 He shall not looke if it be good or bad, nor chaunge it: els if he chaunge it, both it and that it was chaunged withall, shalbe halowed, and may not be redeemed. 34 These are the commaundementes whiche the Lorde commaunded by Moyses vnto the chyldren of Israel in mount Sinai.
• Gen 28:20-22 : 20 And Iacob vowed a vowe, saying: Yf God wyll be with me, and wyll kepe me in this iourney in which I go, and wyll geue me bread to eate, and clothes to put on: 21 So that I come agayne vnto my fathers house in saftie: then shal the Lord be my God. 22 And this stone whiche I haue set vp on an ende, shalbe Gods house: and of all that thou shalt geue me, I wyl surely geue the tenth vnto thee.
• Exod 20:7 : 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne: for the Lorde will not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne.
• Ps 76:11 : 11 Make vowes vnto God your Lorde, & perfourme them all ye that be rounde about hym: bryng presentes vnto hym that is dreadfull.
• Ps 15:3 : 3 He that backbyteth not with his tongue: nor doth any euil to his felowe, nor rayseth a slaunder vpon his neyghbour.
• Ps 55:20 : 20 He layde his handes vpon such as be at peace with him: and he brake his couenaunt.
• Ps 56:12 : 12 O Lorde, thy vowes be vpon me: vnto thee wyll I geue thankes & praise.
• Matt 5:33-34 : 33 Agayne, ye haue hearde that it was sayde vnto them of olde tyme: Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe, but shalt perfourme vnto the Lorde thine othes. 34 But, I say vnto you: Sweare not at all, neither by heauen, for it is gods seate,
• Matt 14:7-9 : 7 Wherfore he promised with an othe, that he woulde geue her whatsoeuer she woulde aske. 8 And she, beyng instruct of her mother before, sayde: geue me here Iohn Baptistes head in a platter. 9 And the kyng was sory: Neuerthelesse, for the othes sake, and them which sate also at the table, he commaunded it to be geuen her:
• Matt 23:16 : 16 Wo be vnto you ye blynde guides: for ye say, whosoeuer doth sweare by the temple, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the temple, he is a detter.
• Matt 23:18 : 18 And whosoeuer sweareth by the aulter, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the gyft that is vpon it, he is a detter.
• Acts 23:14 : 14 And they came to the chiefe priestes and elders, and sayde: We haue bounde our selues with a vowe, that we wyll eate nothyng vntyll we haue slayne Paul.
• Acts 23:21 : 21 But folowe not thou their myndes: For there lye in wayte for him, of them, mo the fourtie men, which haue bounde themselues with a vowe, that they will neither eate nor drynke, tyll they haue kylled hym. And nowe are they redy, and loke that thou shouldest promise.
• 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 I call God for a recorde vnto my soule, that to spare you I came not as yet vnto Corinthus.
• 2 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 As it is written: He hath sparsed abrode, and hath geuen to the poore, his ryghteousnesse remayneth for euer. 10 He that ministreth seede vnto ye sower, ministreth bread also for foode, and multiplieth your seede, and encreaseth the fruites of your ryghteousnesse: 11 That in all thynges ye may be made riche into all singlenesse, which causeth through vs, that thankes are geuen vnto God.
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I haue made an oth (which I wil ratifie) for to kepe thy iuste iudgementes.
• Num 21:2 : 2 And Israel vowed a vowe vnto the Lorde, and sayde: If thou wylt deliuer this people into my hande, I wyll vtterly destroy their cities.