Bible Cross References
When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Deuteronomy 23:18
Also, no money earned in this way may be brought into the house of the LORD your God in fulfillment of a vow. The LORD hates temple prostitutes.
Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow to the LORD: "If you will be with me and protect me on the journey I am making and give me food and clothing,
Genesis 35:1-3
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God said to Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau."
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So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes.
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We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."
Leviticus 27:2-34
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the following regulations for the people of Israel. When any of you have been given to the LORD in fulfillment of a special vow, you may be set free by the payment of the following sums of money,
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according to the official standard: --adult male, twenty to sixty years old: 50 pieces of silver --adult female: 30 pieces of silver --young male, five to twenty years old: 20 pieces of silver --young female: 10 pieces of silver --infant male under five: 5 pieces of silver --infant female: 3 pieces of silver --male above sixty years of age: 15 pieces of silver --female above sixty: 10 pieces of silver
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If any of you make a vow and are too poor to pay the standard price, you shall bring the person to the priest, and the priest will set a lower price, according to your ability to pay.
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If your vow concerns an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the LORD, then every gift made to the LORD is sacred,
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and you may not substitute another animal for it. If you do, both animals belong to the LORD.
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But if your vow concerns a ritually unclean animal, which is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD, you shall take the animal to the priest.
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The priest shall set a price for it, according to its good or bad qualities, and the price will be final.
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If you wish to buy it back, you must pay the price plus an additional 20 percent.
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When any of you dedicate your house to the LORD, the priest shall set the price according to its good or bad points, and the price will be final.
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If you wish to buy your house back, you must pay the price plus an additional 20 percent.
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If any of you dedicate part of your land to the LORD, the price shall be set according to the amount of seed it takes to sow it, at the rate of ten pieces of silver per bushel of barley.
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If you dedicate the land immediately after a Year of Restoration, the full price applies.
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If you dedicate it any time later, the priest shall estimate the cash value according to the number of years left until the next Year of Restoration, and set a reduced price.
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If you wish to buy your field back, you must pay the price plus an additional 20 percent.
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If you sell the field to someone else without first buying it back from the LORD, you lose the right to buy it back.
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At the next Year of Restoration the field will become the LORD's permanent property; it shall belong to the priests.
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If you dedicate to the LORD a field that you have bought,
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the priest shall estimate its value according to the number of years until the next Year of Restoration, and you must pay the price that very day; the money belongs to the LORD.
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At the Year of Restoration the field shall be returned to the original owner or to the descendants.
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All prices shall be set according to the official standard.
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The first-born of an animal already belongs to the LORD, so no one may dedicate it to him as a freewill offering. A calf, a lamb, or a kid belongs to the LORD,
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but the first-born of an unclean animal may be bought back at the standard price plus an additional 20 percent. If it is not bought back, it may be sold to someone else at the standard price.
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None of you may sell or buy back what you have unconditionally dedicated to the LORD, whether it is a human being, an animal, or land. It belongs permanently to the LORD.
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Not even human beings who have been unconditionally dedicated may be bought back; they must be put to death.
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One tenth of all the produce of the land, whether grain or fruit, belongs to the LORD.
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If you wish to buy any of it back, you must pay the standard price plus an additional 20 percent.
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One of every ten domestic animals belongs to the LORD. When the animals are counted, every tenth one belongs to the LORD.
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You may not arrange the animals so that the poor animals are chosen, and you may not make any substitutions. If you do substitute one animal for another, then both animals will belong to the LORD and may not be bought back.
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These are the commands that the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
Numbers 30:2-16
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When a man makes a vow to give something to the LORD or takes an oath to abstain from something, he must not break his promise, but must do everything that he said he would.
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When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to give something to the LORD or promises to abstain from something,
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she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her father raises an objection when he hears about it.
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But if her father forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The LORD will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.
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If an unmarried woman makes a vow, whether deliberately or carelessly, or promises to abstain from something, and then marries,
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she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.
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But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The LORD will forgive her.
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A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something.
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If a married woman makes a vow or promises to abstain from something,
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she must do everything that she vowed or promised unless her husband raises an objection when he hears about it.
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But if her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. The LORD will forgive her, because her husband prevented her from keeping her vow.
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Her husband has the right to affirm or to annul any vow or promise that she has made.
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But if, by the day after he hears of the vow, he has raised no objection, she must do everything that she has vowed or promised. He has affirmed the vow by not objecting on the day he heard of it.
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But if he later annuls the vow, he must suffer the consequences for the failure to fulfill the vow.
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These are the rules that the LORD gave Moses concerning vows made by an unmarried woman living in her father's house or by a married woman.
Psalm 56:12
O God, I will offer you what I have promised; I will give you my offering of thanksgiving,
Psalm 66:13
I will bring burnt offerings to your house; I will offer you what I promised.
Psalm 66:14
I will give you what I said I would when I was in trouble.
Psalm 76:11
Give the LORD your God what you promised him; bring gifts to him, all you nearby nations. God makes everyone fear him;
Psalm 116:18
In the assembly of all your people, in the sanctuary of your Temple in Jerusalem, I will give you what I have promised. Praise the LORD!
Ecclesiastes 5:4
So when you make a promise to God, keep it as quickly as possible. He has no use for a fool. Do what you promise to do.
Ecclesiastes 5:5
Better not to promise at all than to make a promise and not keep it.
Jonah 1:16
This made the sailors so afraid of the LORD that they offered a sacrifice and promised to serve him.
Jonah 2:9
But I will sing praises to you; I will offer you a sacrifice and do what I have promised. Salvation comes from the LORD!"
Nahum 1:15
Look, a messenger is coming over the mountains with good news! He is on his way to announce the victory! People of Judah, celebrate your festivals and give God what you solemnly promised him. The wicked will never invade your land again. They have been totally destroyed!