th bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive
her, because her father disallowed her.

6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or
uttered aught out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

7 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.

8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he
heard _it_; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and
that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound
her soul, of none effect: and the Lord shall forgive her.

9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced,
wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against
her.

10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her
soul by a bond with an oath;

11 And her husband heard _it_, and held his peace at her,
_and_ disallowed her not; then all her vows shall stand, and
every bond wherewith she hound her soul shall stand.

12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the
day he heard _them_; then whatsoever proceeded out of her
lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her
soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and
the Lord shall forgive her.

13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul,
her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it
void.

14 But if the 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.

15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he
hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

16 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.

Between man and his God they tell us there is no one but a Redeemer; but
between woman and man's God there seems to be all her male relations,
which, I should think, would prevent any very close intimacy. And by the
time the divine commands to woman were filtered through the entire
male population, from Moses to the last gentleman who, in the confusion
natural to