Chapter Summary

The laws of vows.

Discussion Questions for Numbers, Chapter 30

1. How does this chapter highlight the weight of a vow in that day? What would be the equivalent of a vow in today’s context?
2. What does keeping one’s word say about their character? What kind of reputation does your word have? Does it reflect the character you want to have?
3. How does this chapter make you reconsider and contemplate what kinds of things you make strong commitments to?
4. Have you ever had someone break a promise they had made to you? How did that make you feel? How does God’s merciful heart with broken vows impact how can we respond to broken promises?
5. Why are there differences in the vows between men and women? What were your initial thoughts when you saw that each were given specific guidelines?
6. Why are the guidelines for women longer? How would these vows protect women?
7. What kind of shift have we seen in today’s culture regarding the topic of gender roles? How can we maintain God’s heart for the distinguished dynamics between a man and a woman. How do you feel discussing this topic?
8. What are some ways today’s society might respond to this chapter? How can you maintain healthy conversation that allows you to support peoples questions while staying true to God’s Word?
9. What role did a father or husband play in a women’s vows? How would this have differed from the way women were more commonly treated culturally?
10. God often made guidelines that helped support His people according to what the “secular response” would have been at the time. How do you think the world responded to a vow being broken in a secular context at that time? How does considering this help us see God’s heart in this passage?

Key Words/Phrase

Vows, v. 2.

Characters

God, Moses.

Strong Verse(s)

2