If a woman vow a vow. The fragmentary nature of this section appears from the fact that, after laying down the general principle of the sacredness of vows, it proceeds to qualify it in three special cases only of vows made by women under authority.
That vows made by boys were irreversible is exceedingly unlikely; and indeed it is obvious that many cases must have occurred, neither mentioned here nor in Leviticus 27:1-34, in which the obligation could not stand absolute.
In her father's house in her youth. Case first, of a girl in her father's house, who had no property of her own, and whose personal services were due to her father.