Deuteronomy 23:22
If thou wilt not promise, thou shalt be without sin.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si nolueris polliceri, absque peccato eris.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν δὲ μὴ θέλῃς εὔξασθαι, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν σοὶ ἁμαρτία.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Deuteronomy 23:23
- וְכִ֥י תֶחְדַּ֖ל לִנְדֹּ֑ר לֹֽא יִהְיֶ֥ה בְךָ֖ חֵֽטְא
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Testimony XXX
In Solomon: “According as thou hast vowed a vow to God, delay not to pay it.” Concerning this same thing in Deuteronomy: “But if thou hast vowed a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it: because the Lord thy God inquiring shall seek it of thee; and it shall be for a sin. Thou shalt observe those things that shall go forth out of thy lips, and shalt perform the gift which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.” Of this same matter in the forty-ninth Psalm: “Sacrifice to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows to the Most High. …