Vows Numbers 30

Numbers 30:2 "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 t all that proceedeth out of his mouth."

Outline:
v1 Vows are not to be broken
v3 The exception of a maid's vow
v6 of a wife's
v9 of a widow's or her that is divorced

Genesis 3:16 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee."

Ephesians chapter 5 also discusses the role of husband and wife as do other passages.

Here in this chapter the order of authority and responsibility are very clear. The husband is not only the head of the house but is held responsible for the happenings there, right down to the vows made by his wife and daughters.

He, himself, has no recourse once he makes a vow but to carry it through and keep his word. The wife, however, does have one way out of a vow and that is if the husband hears her and voids the oath in the same day. The same is true for his unwed daughter. So long as he recants the vow on the same day. There is no mention of a son so I assume his words are treated as those of a man.

I know this idea of a man telling his wife what to do is not popular in our society. It is not a license to be mean to her. On the contrary, he is called on to bear the burden of her mistakes. v15 "But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity."

Christ assumed this role as husband to and head of the church.

Ephesians 5:21-25 "Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God, wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it;"

So, if one thinks to make a vow to the Lord, it should be with much thought and a determination to honor it, for the Lord will certainly remember.

Psalm 103:1 "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name."

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