Leviticus 27
27
Laws concerning Gifts to the LORD
1The LORD gave Moses 2the following regulations for the people of Israel. When a person has been given to the LORD in fulfilment of a special vow, that person may be set free by the payment of the following sums of money, 3-7according to the official standard:
— adult male, twenty to sixty years old: fifty pieces of silver
— adult female: thirty pieces of silver
— young male, five to twenty years old: twenty pieces of silver
— young female: ten pieces of silver
— infant male under five: five pieces of silver
— infant female: three pieces of silver
— male above sixty years of age: fifteen pieces of silver
— female above sixty: ten pieces of silver.
8If anyone who made the vow is too poor to pay the standard price, he or she shall bring the person to the priest, and the priest will set a lower price, according to the ability of that person to pay.
9If the vow concerns an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the LORD, then every gift made to the LORD is sacred, 10and anyone who made the vow may not substitute another animal for it. If he does, both animals belong to the LORD. 11But if the vow concerns a ritually unclean animal, which is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD, the man shall take the animal to the priest. 12The priest shall fix a price for it, according to its good or bad qualities, and the price will be final. 13If the person wishes to buy it back, he must pay the price plus an additional twenty per cent.
14When someone dedicates his house to the LORD, the priest shall fix the price according to its good or bad points, and the price will be final. 15If the one who dedicated the house wishes to buy it back, he must pay the price plus an additional twenty per cent.
16If someone dedicates part of his land to the LORD, the price shall be fixed according to the amount of seed it takes to sow it, at the rate of ten pieces of silver for every twenty kilogrammes of barley. 17If he dedicates the land immediately after a Year of Restoration, the full price applies. 18If he dedicates it later, the priest shall estimate the cash value according to the number of years left until the next Year of Restoration, and fix a reduced price. 19If the one who dedicated the field wishes to buy it back, he or she must pay the price plus an additional twenty per cent. 20If they sell the field to someone else without first buying it back from the LORD, they lose the right to buy it back. 21At the next Year of Restoration the field will become the LORD's permanent property; it shall belong to the priests.
22If someone dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, 23the priest shall estimate its value according to the number of years until the next Year of Restoration, and the person must pay the price that very day; the money belongs to the LORD. 24At the Year of Restoration the field shall be returned to the original owner or to his descendants.
25All prices shall be fixed according to the official standard.
26The firstborn of an animal already belongs to the LORD, so no one may dedicate it to him as a freewill offering. A calf, a lamb, or a kid belongs to the LORD, 27but the firstborn of an unclean animal may be bought back at the standard price plus an additional twenty per cent. If it is not bought back, it may be sold to someone else at the standard price.
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Num 18.14
No one may sell or buy back what he has unconditionally dedicated#27.28 unconditionally dedicated: Anything dedicated in this way belonged completely to the LORD and could not be used; it had to be destroyed. to the LORD, whether it is a human being, an animal, or land. It belongs permanently to the LORD. 29Not even a human being who has been unconditionally dedicated may be bought back; he must be put to death.
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Num 18.21; Deut 14.22–29 One-tenth of all the produce of the land, whether grain or fruit, belongs to the LORD. 31If a man wishes to buy any of it back, he must pay the standard price plus an additional twenty per cent. 32One out of every ten domestic animals belongs to the LORD. When the animals are counted, every tenth one belongs to the LORD. 33The owner may not arrange the animals so that the poor animals are chosen, and he may not make any substitutions. If he does substitute one animal for another, then both animals will belong to the LORD and may not be bought back.
34These are the commands that the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
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Leviticus 27
27
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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