Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 30:4

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

4. heareth her vow ] i.e. comes to hear of it; Num 30:7-8 shew that it does not necessarily mean that he is present when she actually utters her vow.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Her father; under which title seem to be comprehended, as in other places of Scripture, masters, magistrates, and all other superiors, in such cases wherein their right is given away by the inferiors vow; as for instance, when a servant vows to go a long journey for his friend, and his master will not permit him to do so; but not in other cases; as if a servant vows to do something for another in that time which his master alloweth to his own use and disposal, in this case his vow binds him, but not in the former.

And her father shall hold his peace; his silence being an interpretative consent, and much more if he declares his approbation of it.

Shall stand, i.e. be established, or confirmed, or be in force.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul,…. Her vow, which is binding upon her, or her vow and an oath annexed to it; which makes it still more strongly binding; and this he hears himself, or it is reported to him by others: and her father shall hold his peace at her; shall not reprove her for it, nor contradict her in it: then all her vows shall stand; be they what, or as many as they may:

and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand; his silence being to be interpreted as approving of them, and consenting to them.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

4. Her father hold his peace Keep silent and interpose no objection. The principle involved is, that the father and the daughter are one in responsibility, and the undisclaimed vow of the daughter becomes positively obligatory upon the daughter, and permissively obligatory upon the father. The absence of a similar law respecting the son in his minority, together with the following statute placing the wife’s vow under the arbitration of her husband, marks an imperfect stage of religious freedom which culminated in the perfect emancipation of woman by Christ. Gal 3:28.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Num 30:4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

Ver. 4. And her father shall hold his peace. ] Qui tacet, consentire videtur, a rule in civil law; silence is a kind of consent.

Then all her vows shall stand. ] Provided that she vow, (1,) Such things as are lawful and warrantable by the word; for to vow to do evil is an utter abomination; as Act 23:14 Deu 23:18 (2.) Such things as are possible and in her power, either naturally or by the assistance of God’s grace promised to her: such is not the Popish vowing of virginity, since omnes non capiant hoc, all men cannot contain. Their vows of continency breed all manner of incontinency in their clergy.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

shall stand = abideth firm. Compare Gen 23:17, Gen 23:20. Psa 19:7. Isa 14:24; Isa 40:8. Jer 44:29.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

Num 30:2

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Num 30:4. And her father hear her vow Either when she spake the words, or by her acquainting him therewith, as she was bound to do. If it be asked why sons are not mentioned as well as daughters, since both, in their younger years, are under the power of their parents; the answer is, that the cases are quite different; for the sons may soon have it in their power, when become masters of families, to perform the vows which they had made in their minority; but daughters, who pass from the fathers jurisdiction into the power of a husband, are perpetually dependant, either upon their fathers or husbands, and so have no right to make vows without the consent either of the one or the other, except in the case of widowhood or divorce, which is specified, Num 30:9.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

30:4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his {b} peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

(b) For in so doing he approves her.

Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes