“If 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. break: Heb. profane”
Because they might declare them to the Israelites.
“If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;”
Hebrew, violate his word . Hebrew, his soul .
“But 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.”
For in so doing he doth approve her.
“And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; she vowed: Heb. her vows were upon her”
By not approving or consenting to her vow.
“And 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.”
Either by oath, or solemn promise.
“But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.”
For she is in subjection to her husband, and can perform nothing without his consent.
“And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;”
For they are not under the authority of the man.
“Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.”
Hebrew, the bonds of her soul .
“But 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.”
To mortify herself by abstinence or other bodily exercise.
“But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.”
And warn her not the same day that he heareth it, as verse 9 .
“These 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.”
Not the same day he heard them, but some day after, the sin shall be imputed to him and not to her.