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Ecclesiastes 5:4-5
When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because He does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you vow.Better that you do not vow than that you vow and not fulfill it.
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Psalms 66:13-14
I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will pay You my vowsthat my lips promised and my mouth spoke during my distress.
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Psalms 76:11
Make and keep your vows to the Lord your God; let all who are around Him bring tribute to the awe-inspiring One.
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Deuteronomy 23:18
Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.
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Numbers 30:1-16
Moses told the leaders of the Israelite tribes,“ This is what the Lord has commanded:When a man makes a vow to the Lord or swears an oath to put himself under an obligation, he must not break his word; he must do whatever he has promised.“ When a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the Lord or puts herself under an obligation,and her father hears about her vow or the obligation she put herself under, and he says nothing to her, all her vows and every obligation she put herself under are binding.But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, none of her vows and none of the obligations she put herself under are binding. The Lord will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.“ If a woman marries while her vows or the rash commitment she herself made are binding,and her husband hears about it and says nothing to her when he finds out, her vows are binding, and the obligations she put herself under are binding.But if her husband prohibits her when he hears about it, he will cancel her vow that is binding or the rash commitment she herself made, and the Lord will forgive her.“ Every vow a widow or divorced woman puts herself under is binding on her.“ If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,and her husband hears about it, says nothing to her, and does not prohibit her, all her vows are binding, and every obligation she put herself under is binding.But if her husband cancels them on the day he hears about it, nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or her obligation, is binding. Her husband has canceled them, and the Lord will absolve her.Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.If her husband says nothing at all to her from day to day, he confirms all her vows and obligations, which are binding. He has confirmed them because he said nothing to her when he heard about them.But if he cancels them after he hears about them, he will be responsible for her commitment.”These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.
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Genesis 35:1-3
God said to Jacob,“ Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him,“ Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”
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Nahum 1:15
Look to the mountains— the feet of one bringing good news and proclaiming peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked one will never again march through you; he will be entirely wiped out.
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Psalms 56:12
I am obligated by vows to You, God; I will make my thank offerings to You.
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Leviticus 27:2-34
“ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow to the Lord that involves the assessment of people,if the assessment concerns a male from 20 to 60 years old, your assessment is 50 silver shekels measured by the standard sanctuary shekel.If the person is a female, your assessment is 30 shekels.If the person is from five to 20 years old, your assessment for a male is 20 shekels and for a female 10 shekels.If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels, and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver.If the person is 60 years or more, your assessment is 15 shekels for a male and 10 shekels for a female.But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he must present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.“ If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the Lord, any of these he gives to the Lord will be holy.He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.“ If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest.The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you.If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value.“ When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will be his.“ If a man consecrates to the Lord any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of 50 silver shekels for every five bushels of barley seed.If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your assessment.But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced.If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and the field will transfer back to him.But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable.When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the Lord like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.“ If a person consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding,then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the Lord.In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, 20 gerahs to the shekel.“ But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the Lord, because a firstborn already belongs to the Lord.If it is one of the unclean livestock, it must be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment.“ Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord.No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.“ Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value.Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd’s rod, will be holy to the Lord.He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed.”These are the commands the Lord gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
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Jonah 1:16
The men feared the Lord even more, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.
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Matthew 5:33
“ Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors, You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.
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Psalms 116:18
I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all His people,
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Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow:“ If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, if He provides me with food to eat and clothing to wear,
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Jonah 2:9
but as for me, I will sacrifice to You with a voice of thanksgiving. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the Lord!