Vayikra 27
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1And Hashem spoke unto Moshe, saying,
2Speak unto the Bnei Yisroel, and say unto them, When a man shall articulate a neder, the nefashot shall be for Hashem by thy evaluation.
3And thy evaluation shall be of the zachar from esrim shanim even unto shishim shanah, even thy evaluation shall be fifty shekels kesef, after the shekel HaKodesh.
4And if it be a nekevah, then thy evaluation shall be shloshim shekel.
5And if it be from chamesh shanim even unto esrim shanah, then thy evaluation shall be of the zachar esrim shekel, and for the nekevah aseret shekalim.
6And if it be from a month old even unto chamesh shanim, then thy evaluation shall be of the zachar chamishah shekalim kesef, and for the nekevah thy evaluation shall be shloshet shekalim kesef.
7And if it be from shishim shanah and above, if it be a zachar, then thy evaluation shall be chamishah asar shekel, and for the nekevah asarah shekalim.
8But if he be poorer than thy evaluation, then he shall present himself before the kohen, and the kohen shall value him; according to the ability of the one who vowed the neder shall the kohen value him.
9And if it be a behemah, whereof men bring a korban unto Hashem, all that any man giveth of such unto Hashem shall be kodesh.
10He shall not exchange it, nor substitute it, a tov for a rah, or rah for tov: and if he shall at all substitute behemah for behemah, then it and its temurah (substitute)#27:10 1K 2:24 shall be kodesh.
11And if it be any behemah temeiah, of which they do not offer a korban unto Hashem, then he shall present the behemah before the kohen;
12And the kohen shall value it, whether it be tov or rah; as thou valuest it, who art the kohen, so shall it be.
13But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add chamishito (a fifth part thereof) unto thy evaluation.
14And when a man shall set apart as kodesh his bais to be kodesh unto Hashem, then the kohen shall evaluate it, whether it be tov or rah; as the kohen shall set the value of it, so shall it remain.
15And if he that set it apart as kodesh will redeem his bais, then he shall add the fifth part of the kesef of thy evaluation unto it, and it shall be his.
16And if a man shall set apart as kodesh unto Hashem some part of a sadeh of his possession, then thy evaluation shall be according to its seeding; an area seeded by a homer of barley shall be valued at chamishim shekel kesef.
17If he set apart as kodesh his sadeh from the Shnat HaYovel, according to thy evaluation it shall remain.
18But if he set apart as kodesh his sadeh after the Yovel, then the kohen shall reckon unto him the kesef according to the shanim that remain, even unto the Shnat HaYovel, and it shall be deducted from thy evaluation.
19And if he that set apart as kodesh the sadeh will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the kesef of thy evaluation unto it, and it shall be his.
20And if he will not redeem the sadeh, or if he have sold the sadeh to ish acher (another man), it shall not be redeemed any more.
21But the sadeh, when it is released in the Yovel, shall be kodesh unto Hashem, as a sadeh hacherem (devoted); the possession thereof shall be the kohenʼs.
22And if a man set apart as kodesh unto Hashem a sadeh which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession,#27:22 i.e., ancestral heritage
23Then the kohen shall reckon unto him the worth of thy evaluation, even unto the Shnat HaYovel: and he shall give thine evaluation in that day, as kodesh unto Hashem.
24In the Shnat HaYovel the sadeh shall return and revert unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the Achuzzat HaAretz (Ancestral Heritage of the Land) did belong.
25And all thy evaluations shall be according to the shekel HaKodesh; twenty gerah shall be the shekel.
26Only the bechor of the behemah, which should be Hashemʼs Bechor, no man shall set it apart as kodesh; whether it be shor (ox), or seh (sheep): it is Hashemʼs.
27And if it be of a behemah hatemeiah, then he shall redeem it according to thine evaluation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto; or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy evaluation.
28Nevertheless, no cherem (devoted thing), that a man shall devote unto Hashem of all that he hath, both of adam and behemah, and of the sadeh of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every cherem is kodesh kodashim unto Hashem.
29No cherem, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
30And all the ma'aser HaAretz (tithe of the Land), whether of the zera HaAretz, or of the pri HaEtz, is Hashemʼs; it is kodesh unto Hashem.
31And if a man will at all redeem ought of his ma'aserot (tithes), he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
32And concerning the ma'aser of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be kodesh unto Hashem.
33He shall not search whether it be tov or rah, neither shall he change it; and if he substitute it at all, then both it and the temurah (exchange, substitute) shall be kodesh; it shall not be redeemed. (Isaiah 53: Moshiach our temurah!)
34These are the mitzvot, which Hashem commanded Moshe for the Bnei Yisroel in Mt. Sinai.
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Leviticus 27
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Laws About Vows
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2#Nu 6:2; Dt 23:21–23Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When a man makes a special vow to the Lord based on the equivalent value#Shorthand for the formula in Lev 5:15. of persons, 3#Ex 30:13; Lev 27:25then the equivalent value of a male from twenty to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels#About 11/4 pounds, or 575 grams; and in v. 16. of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.#About 2/5 ounce, or 12 grams; and in v. 25. 4If the person is a female, then the equivalent value shall be thirty shekels.#About 12 ounces, or 345 grams. 5If the person is five to twenty years old, then the equivalent value shall be twenty shekels#About 8 ounces, or 230 grams. for a male and ten shekels#About 4 ounces, or 115 grams; and in v. 7. for a female. 6If the person is one month to five years old, then the equivalent value shall be five shekels#About 2 ounces, or 58 grams. for a male and three shekels#About 11/4 ounces, or 35 grams. of silver for a female. 7If the person is sixty years old or older, then the equivalent value shall be fifteen shekels#About 6 ounces, or 175 grams. for a male and ten shekels for a female. 8#Lev 14:21–22But if he is too poor to afford the equivalent value, then he shall present himself before the priest and the priest shall set his value. According to what the person making the vow can afford, so the priest shall set his value.
9And if it be an animal, of which men bring an offering to the Lord, all that any man gives of such to the Lord shall be holy. 10He shall not exchange it nor substitute it, good for bad or bad for good. If he in fact substitutes an animal for another, then both it and its substitute shall be holy. 11If it is any sort of unclean animal that is not permitted as an offering to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest. 12And the priest shall set its value, whether good or bad; according to the equivalent value set by the priest, so shall it be. 13#Lev 27:15; 27:19But if he plans on redeeming it, then he shall add one-fifth to the equivalent value.
14When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set its value, whether good or bad, according to the equivalent value set by the priest, so shall it be established. 15#Lev 27:13If he who consecrates the house should redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth to its equivalent value, and it shall be his.
16If a man shall consecrate to the Lord some of his land, then the equivalent value shall be according to the seed needed to sow it: fifty shekels of silver per homer#Likely about 300 pounds, or 135 kilograms. of barley seed. 17If he consecrates his field from the Year of Jubilee, the equivalent value shall stay fixed, 18#Lev 25:15–16but if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall calculate for him the price according to the years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and the equivalent value shall be reduced. 19And if he who consecrated the field plans on redeeming it, then he shall add one-fifth to the equivalent value, and it will be established as his. 20If he does not redeem the field, but rather sells the field to another man, it may not be redeemed again. 21#Eze 44:29; Nu 18:14; Lev 25:10But when the field is released in the Jubilee, it shall be holy to the Lord as a devoted field; it shall become the possession of the priest.
22#Lev 25:10; 25:25If a man consecrates to the Lord a field that he purchased, which is not part of his land property, 23#Lev 27:18then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of the valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy thing to the Lord. 24#Lev 25:28In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, to him to whom the property of land belongs. 25#Ex 30:13; Nu 3:47All your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: Twenty gerahs#About 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram. shall be one shekel.
26#Ex 13:2; 13:12–13A firstborn of animals, which as firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27If it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ransom it at the equivalent value and shall add one-fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold at the equivalent value.
28#Jos 6:17–19; Ex 22:20Anything that a man shall devote to the Lord from all that he has, whether human, animal, or land, shall not be sold or redeemed. Every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
29No one devoted of men, who shall be doomed to death, shall be redeemed; he shall surely be put to death.
30#Ge 28:22; 14:20Any tithe of the land, whether seed of the land or fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord. It is holy to the Lord. 31If a man plans on redeeming some of his tithe, he shall add one-fifth to it. 32#Jer 33:13; Eze 20:37Any tithe of herd or flock, all that passes under the counting staff, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. 33#Lev 27:10A person shall not differentiate between good or bad, nor shall he make a substitute for it, but if he does, then both it and its substitute shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.
34#Lev 26:46These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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