VOWS

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• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

• 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 31:13

  I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

• Leviticus 5:4

  “‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these.

• Leviticus 5:5

  It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned:

• Leviticus 5:6

  and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin.

• Leviticus 5:7

  “‘If he can’t afford a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

• Leviticus 5:8

  He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not sever it completely.

• Leviticus 5:9

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:10

  He shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

• Leviticus 5:11

  “‘But if he can’t afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, one tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, and he shall not put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:12

  He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 5:13

  The priest shall make atonement for him concerning his sin that he has sinned in any of these things, and he will be forgiven; and the rest shall be the priest’s, as the meal offering.’”

• Leviticus 7:16

  “‘But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow, or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten:

• Leviticus 7:17

  but what remains of the meat of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.

• Leviticus 7:18

  If any of the meat of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, and it shall not be credited to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

• Leviticus 22:18

  “Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;

• Leviticus 22:19

  that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

• Leviticus 22:20

  But whatever has a defect, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

• Leviticus 22:21

  Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.

• Leviticus 22:22

  Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 22:23

  Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

• Leviticus 22:24

  You must not offer to Yahweh that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.

• Leviticus 22:25

  You must not offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner as any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

• Leviticus 23:37

  “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;

• Leviticus 23:38

  besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 27:1

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Leviticus 27:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,

• Leviticus 27:3

  your valuation of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

• Leviticus 27:4

  If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

• Leviticus 27:5

  If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

• Leviticus 27:6

  If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

• Leviticus 27:7

  If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

• Leviticus 27:8

  But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his ability to pay.

• Leviticus 27:9

  “‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy.

• Leviticus 27:10

  He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.

• Leviticus 27:11

  If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest;

• Leviticus 27:12

  and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values it, so shall it be.

• Leviticus 27:13

  But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.

• Leviticus 27:14

  “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.

• Leviticus 27:15

  If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

• Leviticus 27:16

  “‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

• Leviticus 27:17

  If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

• Leviticus 27:18

  But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.

• Leviticus 27:19

  If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.

• Leviticus 27:20

  If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;

• Leviticus 27:21

  but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be owned by the priests.

• Leviticus 27:22

  “‘If he dedicates a field to Yahweh which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,

• Leviticus 27:23

  then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 27:24

  In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.

• Leviticus 27:25

  All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.

• Numbers 15:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you,

• Numbers 15:3

  and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock;

• Numbers 15:4

  then he who offers his offering shall offer to Yahweh a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil.

• Numbers 15:5

  You shall prepare wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

• Numbers 15:6

  “‘Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the third part of a hin of oil;

• Numbers 15:7

  and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• Numbers 15:8

  When you prepare a bull for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh;

• Numbers 15:9

  then shall he offer with the bull a meal offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of oil:

• Numbers 15:10

  and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• Numbers 15:11

  Thus shall it be done for each bull, or for each ram, or for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats.

• Numbers 15:12

  According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.

• Numbers 15:13

  “‘All who are native-born shall do these things in this way, in offering an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

• Numbers 15:14

  If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do.

• Numbers 15:15

  For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations. As you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.

• Numbers 15:16

  One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”

• Numbers 18:14

  “Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.

• Numbers 29:39

  “‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.’”

• Numbers 30:1

  Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded.

• Numbers 30:2

  When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

• Numbers 30:3

  “Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth,

• Numbers 30:4

  and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

• Numbers 30:5

  But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. Yahweh will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her.

• 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 hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds 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 shall make 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 bond 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 altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are on her. He has established them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

• Numbers 30:15

  But if he shall make them null and void after that 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.

• Deuteronomy 12:6

  There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

• Deuteronomy 12:11

  then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 12:17

  You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, nor the wave offering of your hand;

• Deuteronomy 12:18

  but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates. You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.

• Deuteronomy 12:26

  Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to the place which Yahweh shall choose.

• Deuteronomy 23:18

  You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

• Deuteronomy 23:21

  When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 23:22

  But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no sin in you.

• Deuteronomy 23:23

  You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

• Judges 11:29

  Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

• Judges 11:30

  Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

• Judges 11:31

  then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”

• Judges 11:32

  So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

• Judges 11:33

  He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

• Judges 11:35

  When he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I can’t go back.”

• Judges 11:36

  She said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.”

• Judges 11:37

  She said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me. Leave me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.”

• Judges 11:38

  He said, “Go.” He sent her away for two months: and she departed, she and her companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.

• Judges 11:39

  At the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed. She was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel

• Judges 11:40

  that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

• Judges 17:2

  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

• Judges 17:3

  He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

• Judges 20:21

  The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.

• Judges 21:5

  The children of Israel said, “Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn’t come up in the assembly to Yahweh?” For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn’t come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”

• Judges 21:6

  The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.

• 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.”

• 1 Samuel 1:21

  The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

• 1 Samuel 1:27

  I prayed for this child; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

• 1 Samuel 1:28

  Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

• 2 Samuel 15:7

  At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 15:8

  For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”

• Job 22:27

  You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

• Job 31:1

  “I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

• Psalms 22:25

  Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

• Psalms 50:14

  Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

• Psalms 50:15

  Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

• Psalms 56:12

  Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

• Psalms 61:5

  For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

• Psalms 61:8

  So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.

• Psalms 65:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.

• Psalms 66:13

  I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

• Psalms 66:14

  which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

• Psalms 76:11

  Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

• Psalms 116:14

  I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.

• Psalms 116:15

  Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

• Psalms 116:16

  Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant. You have freed me from my chains.

• Psalms 116:17

  I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.

• Psalms 116:18

  I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

• Psalms 116:19

  in the courts of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

• Psalms 132:2

  how he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

• Proverbs 20:25

  It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

• Ecclesiastes 5:4

  When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

• Ecclesiastes 5:5

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

• Ecclesiastes 5:6

  Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

• Jonah 2:9

  But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

• Nahum 1:15

  Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

• Mark 7:11

  But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God”;’

• Mark 7:12

  then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

• Mark 7:13

  making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

• Acts 5:1

  But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

• Acts 5:2

  and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

• Acts 5:3

  But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

• Acts 5:4

  While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

• Acts 5:5

  Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.

• Acts 5:6

  The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

• Acts 5:7

  About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

• Acts 5:8

  Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” She said, “Yes, for so much.”

• Acts 5:9

  But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

• Acts 5:10

  She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

• Acts 5:11

  Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

• Acts 23:12

  When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

• Acts 23:13

  There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

• Acts 23:14

  They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

• Acts 23:15

  Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”