Gen 28:20, 35:1-3, Lev 27:2-34, Num 30:2-16, Deu 23:18, Psa 56:12, 66:13-14 | ESV | STEP | Then Jacob made a vow , saying , If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go , and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear ,

20 Then Jacob ^amade a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

Genesis 35:1-3

God Blesses and Renames Jacob

1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to ^bBethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you ^cwhen you fled from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his ^dhousehold and to all who were with him, “Put away ^ethe foreign gods that are among you and ^fpurify yourselves and change your garments. 3 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God ^gwho answers me in the day of my distress and ^hhas been with me wherever I have gone.”

Leviticus 27:2-34

2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone ⁱmakes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, 3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} of silver, according to the ^kshekel of the sanctuary. 4 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.

9 “If the vow ^{▼▼Hebrew it} is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. 10 ^mHe shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. 11 And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, 12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. 13 ⁿBut if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a ^ofifth to the valuation.

14 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 ^pAnd if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a ^qfifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

16 “If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer ^{▼▼A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters} of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, 18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall ^scalculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. 19 ^tAnd if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a ^ufifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. 20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore. 21 But the field, ^vwhen it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been ^wdevoted. The priest shall be in ^xpossession of it. 22 If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, ^ywhich is not a part of his possession, 23 ^zthen the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord. 24 ^aaIn the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. 25 Every valuation shall be according to ^abthe shekel of the sanctuary: ^actwenty gerahs ^{▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram} shall make a shekel.

26 “But a ^aefirstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, ^afand add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

28 “But ^agno devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 ^ahNo one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

30 ^aj“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that ^akpass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, ^alneither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

34 ^amThese are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel ^anon Mount Sinai.

Numbers 30:2-16

2 ^aoIf a man vows a vow to the Lord, or ^apswears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. ^aqHe shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

Women and Vows

3 “If a woman vows a vow to the Lord and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth, 4 and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. 5 But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the Lord will forgive her, because her father opposed her.

6 “If she marries a husband, while under her ^arvows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself, 7 and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. 8 But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her ^asvow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. ^atAnd the Lord will forgive her. 9 (But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.) 10 And if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath, 11 and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand. 12 But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and ^authe Lord will forgive her. 13 Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, ^{▼▼Or to fast} her husband may establish, ^{▼▼Or may allow to stand} or her husband may make void. 14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them. 15 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then ^axhe shall bear her iniquity.”

16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father’s house.

Deuteronomy 23:18

18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog ^{▼▼Or male prostitute} into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.

Psalms 56:12

12 I must perform my ^azvows to you, O God;
I will ^barender thank offerings to you.

Psalms 66:13-14

13 I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
I will ^bbperform my vows to you,
14 that which my lips uttered
and my mouth promised ^bcwhen I was in trouble.