DEUTERONOMY 23:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.”
If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not postpone fulfilling it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you would incur guilt — vows are binding speech acts before God; delay is sin. The Hebrew connotes that God actively 'seeks' (yidreshenu) the fulfillment, treating vows as obligations to the divine person directly.
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