Numbers 30:9

Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

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KJV

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

ASV

But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.

YLT

`As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.

DBT

But the vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, — everything wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand against her.

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But every vow of a widow,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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Romans 7:2
For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
Luke 2:37
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
Leviticus 21:7
A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
Deuteronomy 24:2
If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,

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About this book

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 7:2
For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.
leads to
- Genesis 2:23–24
  And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:4
  The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:39
  A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
Through
Luke 2:37
and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
leads to
- 1 Timothy 5:5
  The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
- Psalms 23:6
  Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
- Acts 14:23
  Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
- Acts 13:3
  And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Through
Leviticus 21:7
A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
leads to
- Leviticus 21:13–14
  The woman he marries must be a virgin.

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