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First Reading First Reading
Moses spoke to the tribal heads of the Israelites, telling them that this is the word that God had commanded:
Vayedaber Moshe el-rashey hamatot livney Yisra'el lemor zeh hadavar asher tsivah Adonay. |
| 30:3 |
If a man makes a vow to God, or makes an oath to obligate himself, he must not break his word. He must do all that he expressed verbally.
Ish ki-yidor neder l'Adonay o-hishava shvu'ah lesor isar al-nafsho lo yachel dvaro kechol-hayotse mipiv ya'aseh. |
| 30:4 |
[This is the law] when a woman makes a vow to God or binds herself by an obligation while still a girl in her father's house.
Ve'ishah ki-tidor neder l'Adonay ve'asrah isar beveyt aviha bin'ureyha. |
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Commentary:
Moses spoke
Some say that this was given after the war with Midian (Numbers 31) (Ibn Ezra; Chizzkuni).
| obligate himself
(Yerushalmi, Nedarim 9:1; Septuagint). Assar in Hebrew. Or, 'forbid' (Sifri).
| he must not...
This is a commandment (Sefer HaMitzvoth, Negative Commandment 157).
| girl
From age 11 until 12-1/2 (Yad, Nedarim 11:7). Before that age, her vows are not binding, and later, her father can no longer annul them.
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