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Vows
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Numbers 15:10Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.Numbers 15:11This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.Numbers 15:12This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.Numbers 15:13Everyone who is native-born shall prepare these things in this way when he presents a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.Numbers 15:14And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.Numbers 15:15The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.Numbers 15:16The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”Numbers 18:14Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.Numbers 29:39You are to present these offerings to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, or peace offerings.”Numbers 30:1Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:Numbers 30:2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.Numbers 30:3And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,Numbers 30:4and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.Numbers 30:5But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.Numbers 30:6If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,Numbers 30:7and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.Numbers 30:8But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.Numbers 30:9Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.Numbers 30:10If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,Numbers 30:11and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.Numbers 30:12But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.Numbers 30:13Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.Numbers 30:14But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.Numbers 30:15But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”Numbers 30:16These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his home.Deuteronomy 12:6To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.Deuteronomy 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.Deuteronomy 12:17Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.Deuteronomy 12:18Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,Deuteronomy 12:26But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.Deuteronomy 23:18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 23:21If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.Deuteronomy 23:22But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.Deuteronomy 23:23Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.Judges 11:29Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.Judges 11:30Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,Judges 11:31then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”Judges 11:32So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hand.Judges 11:33With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.Judges 11:34And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.Judges 11:35As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”Judges 11:36“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”Judges 11:37She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”Judges 11:38“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.Judges 11:39After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in IsraelJudges 11:40that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.Judges 17:2said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”Judges 17:3And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”Judges 21:5The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.Judges 21:6And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.1 Samuel 1:11And she made a vow, saying, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever touch his head.”1 Samuel 1:21Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,2 Samuel 15:7After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.2 Samuel 15:8For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”Job 22:27You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?Psalm 22:25My praise for You resounds in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows before those who fear You.Psalm 50:14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.Psalm 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”Psalm 56:12Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.