Leviticus 27
27
Funding the Sanctuary
1The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow # 27:2 Lv 27:8 to the Lord that involves the assessment of people, 3if the assessment concerns a male from twenty to sixty years old, your assessment is fifty silver shekels # 27:3 2Kg 15:20 measured by the standard sanctuary shekel. # 27:3 Ex 30:13; Lv 5:15; 27:25; Nm 3:47 4If the person is a female, your assessment is thirty shekels. # 27:4 Ex 21:32 5If the person is from five to twenty years old, your assessment for a male is twenty shekels # 27:5 Gn 37:28 and for a female ten shekels. 6If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels, # 27:6 Nm 3:46–47; 18:15–16 and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver. 7If the person is sixty years or more, your assessment is fifteen shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. 8But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he is to present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.
9“If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the Lord, any of these he gives to the Lord will be holy. 10He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. # 27:10 Mal 1:8 But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
11“If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest. 12The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you. 13If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the # 27:13 Lit your, also in vv. 15,19,23 assessed value. # 27:13 Gn 47:24; Lv 5:16; 6:5
14“When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it. 15But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will be his. # 27:14–15 Lv 25:29–31
16“If a man consecrates to the Lord any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of fifty silver shekels for every six bushels # 27:16 Lit for a homer of barley seed. # 27:16 Or grain 17If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, # 27:17 Lv 25:10 the price will stand according to your assessment. 18But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced. 19If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and the field will transfer back to him. 20But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable. 21When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the Lord like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.
22“If a person consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding, 23then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the Lord. 24In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, # 27:24 Lv 25:28 the original owner. 25All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, # 27:25 A shekel is about two-fifths of an ounce of silver twenty gerahs to the shekel. # 27:25 Ex 30:13; Nm 18:16; Ezk 45:12
26“But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the Lord, because a firstborn already belongs to the Lord. # 27:26 Ex 13:2,15; 34:19; Nm 18:15 27If it is one of the unclean livestock, it can be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment. # 27:27 Ex 13:13; 34:20
28“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord. 29No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death. # 27:29 Nm 21:1–3; 31:7,13–17; Jos 6:17; 1Sm 15:17–33
30“Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; # 27:30 Nm 18:21–32; Dt 14:22–29; Neh 10:37–39 it is holy to the Lord. 31If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value. 32Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd’s rod, # 27:32 Gn 28:22; 2Ch 31:6; Jr 33:13 will be holy to the Lord. 33He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; # 27:33 Lv 12:4; 25:12 they cannot be redeemed.” # 27:33 Lv 27:10
34These are the commands the Lord gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai. # 27:34 Nm 36:13
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Leviticus 27
27
Laws about promises and offerings to the Lord
Making promises to the LORD
1The LORD told Moses 2to say to the community of Israel:
If you ever want to free someone who has been promised to me, 3-7you may do so by paying the following amounts, weighed according to the official standards:
fifty pieces of silver for men aged twenty to sixty,
and thirty pieces for women;
twenty pieces of silver for young men
aged five to twenty,
and ten pieces for young women;
fifteen pieces of silver for men
aged sixty and above and ten pieces for women;
five pieces of silver for boys
aged one month to five years, and three pieces for girls.
8If you have promised to give someone to me and can't afford to pay the full amount for that person's release, you will be taken to a priest, and he will decide how much you can afford.
9If you promise to sacrifice an animal to me, it becomes holy, and there is no way you can set it free. 10If you try to substitute any other animal, no matter how good, for the one you promised, they will both become holy and must be sacrificed. 11Donkeys are unfit for sacrifice, so if you promise me a donkey,#27.11 Donkeys…donkey: The Hebrew text has “If you promise me an unclean animal”, which probably refers to a donkey (see Exodus 13.13; 34.20). you must bring it to the priest, 12and let him determine its value. 13But if you want to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty per cent.
14If you promise a house to me, a priest will set the price, whatever the condition of the house. 15But if you decide to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty per cent.
16If you promise part of your family's land to me, its value must be determined by the amount of seed needed to plant the land, and the rate will be ten pieces of silver for every twenty kilogrammes of seed. 17If this promise is made in the Year of Celebration,#27.17 Year of Celebration: See 25.8-34. the land will be valued at the full price. 18But any time after that, the price will be worked out according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration. 19If you decide to buy back the land, you must pay the price plus an additional twenty per cent, 20but you cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it. 21When the Year of Celebration comes, the land becomes holy because it belongs to me, and it will be given to the priests.
22If you promise me a field that you have bought, 23its value will be decided by a priest, according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration, and the money you pay will be mine. 24However, on the next Year of Celebration, the land will go back to the family of its original owner. 25Every price will be set by the official standards.
Various offerings
The LORD said:
26All firstborn animals of your flocks and herds are already mine, and so you cannot promise any of them to me. 27If you promise me a donkey,#27.27 donkey: See the note at verse 11. you may buy it back by adding an additional twenty per cent to its value. If you don't buy it back, it can be sold to someone else for whatever a priest has said it is worth.
28Anything that you completely dedicate to me must be completely destroyed.#27.28 completely dedicate…completely destroyed: In order to show that something belonged completely to the LORD and could not be used by anyone else, it was destroyed. This law most often applied to towns and people captured in war (see Joshua 6.16,17). It cannot be bought back or sold. Every person, animal, and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me.#Nu 18.14. 29In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put to death.
30Ten per cent of everything you harvest is holy and belongs to me, whether it grows in your fields or on your fruit trees.#Nu 18.21; Dt 14.22-29. 31If you want to buy back this part of your harvest, you may do so by paying what it is worth plus an additional twenty per cent.
32When you count your flocks and herds, one out of ten of every newborn animal#27.32 one out of ten of every newborn animal: Or “one out of every ten animals”. is holy and belongs to me, 33no matter how good or bad it is. If you substitute one animal for another, both of them become holy, and neither can be bought back.
34Moses was on Mount Sinai when the LORD gave him these laws for the people of Israel.
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