Ecclesiastes 5:5

Ecclesiastes 5:5
It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.

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Genesis 28:21
so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

Genesis 28:22
then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

1 Samuel 1:11
She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

Psalms 22:25
My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

Psalms 56:12
Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

Psalms 119:106
I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

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Numbers 30:6
“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul,

Numbers 30:7
and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:8
But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

Numbers 30:9
“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

Numbers 30:10
“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

Numbers 30:11
and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:12
But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. Yahweh will forgive her.

Numbers 30:13
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Numbers 30:14
But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them.

Numbers 30:15
But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”

Numbers 30:16
These are the statutes which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.

Psalms 15:4
in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

Matthew 5:33
“Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’

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