Numbers — Chapter 30
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Verse 6
Shal be frustrate.] Vowes, which fathers and husbands could frustrate in their daughters and wiues, must needs be ment of things not commanded by God. For it was not in their power to dispence in Gods precepts. As for example, touching the feast of Expiation, it was not in the arbitrement of fathers and husbands (as here it was v.14) whether their daughters and wiues should fast or no: but was absolutely said (Levit. 23. v. 29.) Euerie soule that is not afflicted (that is, which fasteth not) this day, shal perish out of his people. And so in other precepts were necessarie obligations. Besides which it is grateful also to God, that his seruants bind themselues to other good workes, wherto they are not otherwise bound.