Again returning the focus to the Image of God in the flesh concerning gender, one notes that God makes and has made distinctions in humanity based on Gender, that God does not see men and women as authoritative equals in creation and in the flesh as it can be shown concerning the laws and ordinances he gave Israel through Moses.

Numbers 30:1-15 “And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded. If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth; And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her. And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her. But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her. And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her. Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may

make it void. But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.”

Expounding upon Numbers 30:1-15; what can be deduced from this excerpt of God's law which he gave to ancient Israel is a distinction in terms of authority based on gender in humanity through Fathers and Husbands. As this passage comes to us by God through Moses, likewise, its selection of Fathers and Husbands as figures of authority as they bare God's image, is also likewise symbolic being that the Mosaic Law is from the Living God.

Without covering this passage point by point for the sake of brevity, under Ancient Hebrew Mosaic Law, daughters living under their Father's house are under the authority of their Fathers who in the Law can exercise the authoritative right to annul a vow that their daughter makes before God, and likewise, the same is said of the Husband in relation to his Wife that she is under his authority that he in marriage may also annul or establish a vow made by his wife.

The symbolism in this passage of Numbers is fairly overt as well throughout both the old testament and new testament portions of the Bible, the relationship between God and his chosen people is one of marriage wherein God is husband to his bride, his elect people. Observe passages Jeremiah 31:32, Isaiah 54:5 & 62:5-6, Mathew 9:15, John 21:2 for such symbolism. As there is also symbolic paternal inference concerning this passage of Numbers in the relationship between God and his people, so is it reinforced elsewhere in the Bible in Isaiah 52:2 & 62:11, Psalm 45 & 103:13, Mathew 6:9.

Also, because God is not arbitrary and neither is his word contained in the Holy Bible, the reasoning behind the symbolism involved in this passage of Numbers is in continuity with Genesis just as the entire Holy Bible is in continuity with itself. We are observing this theme repeatedly in the course of this exposition on God's Image.