Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When a man makes an extraordinary vow of his soul unto Jehovah by valuation,

If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels;

and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver;

But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him; according to what he who vowed is able to afford, the priest shall value him.

He shall not substitute it nor exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges beast for beast, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy.

and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.

And when a man consecrates his house to be holy unto Jehovah, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

If a man consecrates unto Jehovah part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

But if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore;

And if a man consecrates unto Jehovah a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his possession,

In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owns the land as a possession.

But the firstborn of the beasts, which is the firstborn unto Jehovah, no man shall consecrate; whether ox or sheep: it is already Jehovah's.

Nevertheless no devoted thing that a man may devote unto Jehovah of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is set apart, holy, unto Jehovah.

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's. It is holy unto Jehovah.

And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy unto Jehovah.

These are the commandments which Jehovah commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.

And the men answered her, Our lives for yours, if you tell none of this business of ours. And it shall be, when Jehovah gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

if then you have dealt in truth and integrity towards Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, shall surely be Jehovah's, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.

What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by Jehovah not to give them our daughters as wives?

However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.

And she vowed a vow and said, O Jehovah of Hosts, if You will look to see the affliction of Your handmaid and remember me, and not forget Your handmaid, but will give Your handmaid a male child, then I shall give him unto Jehovah all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.

And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had placed the people under oath, saying, Cursed is the man who eats food until evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food.

And when the people had come into the forest, there was the flowing honey; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

Then one of the people said, Your father adjured the people with an oath, saying, Cursed is the man who eats food this day. And the people were faint.

Therefore swear now to me by Jehovah that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name from my father's house.

And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I leave to him by morning light any of those who urinate against a wall.

But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath of Jehovah that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Then he said, God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.

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

I will not give sleep to my eyes nor slumber to my eyelids,

Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to say a word before God. For God is in Heaven, and you are on earth; therefore let your words be few.

When you vow a vow to God, do not hesitate to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you have vowed.

Do not permit your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Since he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and in fact gave his hand and still did all these things, he shall not escape.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense upon his own head.

Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.

And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.

He also swore to her, Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.

And when it was day, some of the Jews made a pact and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.