Numbers 30

Numbers 30:1

TO bind his soule] Voluntarily submitting his person to divine punishment, if he did faile in his vow, and breake his promise. Some understand these words for vows of abstinence; and mortifying ones selfe, for some reasonable and lawful respect towards Gods service, See v. 13. 1 Samuel 14:24 He shall not breake] So it be not against the will of God, as Mark 6:23; Mark 6:26. Acts 23:14.

Numbers 30:3

A woman] By which ought also to be understood every childe, servant, or any other person, that is subject unto another bodies will.

Numbers 30:5

In the day] Without delaying it any longer than one whole day: v. 14 Shall forgive her] shal not impute it to her for a sin, and if it be, he shall pardon it, seeing it was not her default, that the vow was not accomplished.

Numbers 30:6

If she had at all an husband] After she had bound her selfe by a vow made in her fathers house; so ought this precept again to be distinguished from the other, v. 10.

Numbers 30:13

To afflict] By some fast, or other voluntary abstinence, Leviticus 16:29. Others to the affliction of her soule; that is to say, to be punished by God in her person, in case she breake hr promise.

Numbers 30:15

Her iniquity] If there be any, as it might happen if the husband should for some unlawful respects gainsay his wife.