Numbers 30:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

An husband, to whose will and authority she was thereby made subject. When she vowed, to wit, when she was in her father's house, as is evident by comparing Numbers 30:10; and this clause seems to be added by way of exception to that which was said Numbers 30:3,4, to signify, that though she were in her father's house, yet if she were married, her husband only, and not her father, could disoblige her from her vow. Or uttered ought; either,

1. By way of vow, and so this clause explains and determines the former, i.e. if she express her vow in words. Or,

2. By way of oath, concerning which this same phrase is used Leviticus 5:4, and so this clause is distinct from the former, which the disjunctive particle or implies.

Numbers 30:6

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