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 \v 3 When a young woman living in her father's house makes a vow to Yahweh and binds herself with a promise, while within the house of her father,
-\v 4 and her father hears the vow and the promise by which she has bound herself, and he says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.  
+\v 4 if her father hears the vow and the promise by which she has bound herself, and if he says nothing to reverse her, then all her vows will remain in force, and every pledge by which she has bound herself will stand.  
 
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 \v 5 But if her father overrules her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; Yahweh will release her because her father has forbidden her.