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If her father hears about her promise and he does not say anything, she must do everything that she has promised. But her father may refuse to let her do it. Then she does not have to do what she promised to do. The Lord will understand why she does not do it.

But a young woman like that might make a promise to God and then marry a husband. She might have promised something when she had not thought carefully about it.

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and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand.(A) But if her father forbids her(B) when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the Lord will release her because her father has forbidden her.

“If she marries after she makes a vow(C) or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself

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