Numbers 30:15 {16}
Good News Translation
But if he later annuls the vow, he must suffer the consequences for the failure to fulfill the vow.

New Revised Standard Version
But if he nullifies them some time after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her guilt.

Contemporary English Version
But if he waits until the next day to stop her from keeping her promise, he is the one who must be punished.

New American Bible
If, however, he annuls them some time after he first learned of them, he will be responsible for her guilt.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.

he shall bear

Numbers 30:5,8,12 But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it. . . .

Leviticus 5:1 If any one sin, and hear the voice of one swearing, and is a witness either because he himself hath seen, or is privy to it: if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Context
Laws Concerning Vows
14But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace. 15But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.16These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father's house.…
Cross References
Numbers 30:14
But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace.

Numbers 30:16
These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father's house.

Numbers 30:14
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