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Numbers 30:6

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And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;
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  1. Psalms 56:12Rank 1 from verse 6
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    12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

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Numbers 30:6

COMBINED MEANING

husband

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Sense 1: A married man in relation to his wife. Sense 2: One who manages or cultivates carefully.

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uttered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of utter, meaning to speak, declare, or make known.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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lips

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Sense 1: The physical borders of the mouth. Sense 2: By extension, speech or utterance.

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bound

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1. Tied, fastened, wrapped, bandaged, joined, confined, or restrained, literally or figuratively. 2. Placed under a vow, law, duty, obligation, or determined course. 3. Directed or travelling toward a stated place. 4. A limit or boundary.

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soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

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30:1AND Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.

30:2If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

30:3If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

30:4And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

30:5But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

30:6And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

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30:7And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

30:8But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the Lord shall forgive her.

30:9But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

30:10And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

30:11And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

30:12But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.

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

30:14But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

30:15But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

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

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