Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 162
The Five Books of Moses
of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying; ‘ This is the thing that the EVER- L1v1NG commands, ‘A person who vows a. vow to
]EHOVAH, or swears an oath to bind his soul, shall not repudiate his word, but perform all that has come out of his mouth; Quin nf ¥¤t¤¤ hg mnmm. ‘ And a woman who has vowed a
vow to the EvER~L1vxNG, but who is yet inthe house of her father in her youth; when her father hears of her vow, and the bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father is silent upon it, then every vowshall stand, and every bond shall stand, with which she has bound her soul. But if her father comes to forbid her at the time he hears of any vow- or bond with which she has bound her soul, it shall not stand ; and JEHOVAH will release her, because her father forbids it. But if she has a husband, and
she takes a vow upon her, or rashly utters from her lips what might bind her soul; when her husband hears of it, if he keeps silent to her at the time he hears, then. the vow and bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand; but if at the time her husband hears of it, he prohibits it; then the vow which she has vowed upon herself, and the rash utterance of her lips by which she has bound her soul, shall be an- nulled, and the EVER-LIVING will release it. 'But the vow of a widow, or a
divorced woman;-all that they bind upon their souls shall stand upon them. ‘Yet if the mistress of a house
binds a bond upon her soul with an oath; if when her husband hears of it he keeps silent to her, not for- bidding it, then every vow, and every bond which she has bound upon her soul shall stand. But if at the time her husband hears it he annuls them, all that came out of her lips as a vow, or a bond upon her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has annulled it, and the EvER—L1v1NG will release it. Every vow and every oath bind- ing to afflict the soul, her husband may confirm and her husband may annul; but if her husband keeps silent to her from day to day, then he confirms them; for he was silent to her at the time he heard. But if he annuls them, after having heard of them, then he takes away any These are the laws that the EVER-
LIVING commanded to Moses about husband and wife; and about father and young girl in the house of her father; g 5 Mer mill; £i¤imt rsmmzmhzh. The EvEx—L1v1NG spoke to Moses 31 and said ;·-— ‘Arouse the children of Israel
against the Midianites after you have enumerated your people} Moses therefore spoke to the People saymg;—— ‘ Select from yourselves omcers for
a war with the Midianites, for the Loma has ordered an advance against Midian, of a thousand from each tribe, from all the tribes of Israel, to So they massed from the tribes of Israel, by a thousand from each ,tribe,twelve thousand chosen for the war, and Moses sent the thousand from each tribe to the war, with Phinehas the son of Aliazer the priest, and the sacred furniture, and the gongs in his possession to encourage them; These made war against Midian as the EVER-LIVING co_mmanded Moses, and slew every leader. They also slew the kings of Midian in the slaughter, Air, and Rekem, and Tzur, and Khur, and Raba, the live kings of Midian, and also slew Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. Then the children of Israel took
possession of the women of Midian, with their children, and all the cattle, and all their property, and all their people, as booty, with all the villages which they inhabited, and burnt all their furniture with fire, and carried olf all the plunder, and all the spoil from the field and from the person. Then they brought the captives to Moses, 162 IO II I2
