Numbers 30:2

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth 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 praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
• Ps 50:14 : 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
• Job 22:27 : 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
• Acts 23:12 : 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
• Ps 116:14 : 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
• Ps 116:18 : 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
• Prov 20:25 : 25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
• Eccl 5:4-5 : 4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
• Nah 1:15 : 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
• Ps 66:13-14 : 13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, 14 Which my li have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
• Lev 5:4 : 4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
• Num 30:3-4 : 3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth; 4 And 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.
• Num 30:10 : 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
• Deut 23:21-23 : 21 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. 22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. 23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
• Judg 11:11 : 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
• Judg 11:30-31 : 30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
• Judg 11:35-36 : 35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back. 36 And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
• Judg 11:39 : 39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
• Lev 27:2-9 : 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation. 3 And thy estimation shall be of the ma from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a fema, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the ma twenty shekels, and for the fema ten shekels. 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the ma five shekels of silver, and for the fema thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a ma, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the fema ten shekels. 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him. 9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. 11 And if it be any uncan beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest: 12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation. 14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of bary seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubi, according to thy estimation it shall stand. 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubi, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubi, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. 19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. 21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubi, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. 22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession; 23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubi: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD. 24 In the year of the jubi the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong. 25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. 26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S. 27 And if it be of an uncan beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. 28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. 29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. 30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD. 31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof. 32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. 33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. 34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
• Gen 28:20-22 : 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
• Exod 20:7 : 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
• Ps 76:11 : 11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
• Ps 15:3 : 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
• Ps 55:20 : 20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.
• Ps 56:12 : 12 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
• Matt 5:33-34 : 33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: 34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne:
• Matt 14:7-9 : 7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. 8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. 9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
• Matt 23:16 : 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
• Matt 23:18 : 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
• Acts 23:14 : 14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
• Acts 23:21 : 21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
• 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
• 2 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. 10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) 11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
• Num 21:2 : 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.