If the wife in the house of her husband, hath bound herself by vow and by oath,

And if she have vowed in her husband's house, or have bound her soul by an oath with a bond,

And if in the house of her husband she hath vowed, or hath bound a bond on her soul with an oath,

If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,

And if a woman vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

If a wife in the house of her husband has bound herself by a vow or an oath,

Porro si in domo mariti sui votum fecerit, aut constringendo constrinxerit animam per jusjurandum:

And if she vowed in her husband's (h) house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;
(h) Her husband being alive.

And if she vowed in her husband's house,.... Before his death, in his lifetime, or before divorced: the Targum of Jonathan adds, by way of explanation, "and not at age for marriage", understanding it of a betrothed, and not a married person; but Jarchi says, the Scripture speaks of a married one, which seems most likely:
or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; to fulfil her vow, to abstain from this, or to do that or the other thing.

If she vowed - If she that now a widow, or divorced, made that vow while her husband lived with her; as suppose she then vowed, that if she was a widow, she would give such a proportion of her estate to pious or charitable uses, of which vow she might repent when she came to be a widow, and might believe or repented she was free from it, because that vow was made in her husband's lifetime; this is granted, in case her husband then disallowed it; but denied, in case by silence, or otherwise he consented to it.