Leviticus 27
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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:
50 pieces of silver for men
ages 20 to 60,
and 30 pieces for women;
20 pieces of silver
for young men ages 5 to 20,
and 10 pieces
for young women;
15 pieces of silver for men
ages 60 and above
and 10 pieces for women;
5 pieces of silver for boys
ages 1 month to 5 years,
and 3 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 20 percent.
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 20 percent.
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 20 kilograms 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 figured 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 20 percent, 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 first-born 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 27.11. you may buy it back by adding an additional 20 percent 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.
28 #
Nu 18.14. Anything 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. 29In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put to death.
30 #
Nu 18.21; Dt 14.22-29. Ten percent of everything you harvest is holy and belongs to me, whether it grows in your fields or on your fruit trees. 31If you want to buy back this part of your harvest, you may do so by paying what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent.
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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Leviticus 27
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Leviticus 27
1¶ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,
2Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When someone shall make a special vow unto the Lord, according to the estimation of the persons that are to be redeemed, thus shall be thy estimation:
3Regarding the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
4And if it is a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5And if it is from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6And if it is from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
7And if it is from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8But if he is poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of the one that vowed shall the priest value him.
9And if it is an animal which is offered unto the Lord, all that anyone gives of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
10He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he shall exchange one animal for another, then it and the one exchanged thereof shall belong to the sanctuary.
11And if it is an unclean animal, which cannot be offered as a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest;
12and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; according to the estimation of the priest, so shall it be.
13But if it must be redeemed, then they shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
14¶ And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.
15And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
16And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof; one homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17If he sanctifies his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
18But if he sanctifies his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
19And if he that sanctified the field desires to redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20But if he should not redeem the field, and if the field is sold to another, it shall not be redeemed any more;
21but the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field of anathema; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
22And if anyone sanctifies unto the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not of the fields of his inheritance,
23then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation until the year of the jubilee; and that day he shall give thy assigned price, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
24In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto the one of whom it was bought, unto whom the inheritance of the land did belong.
25And all thy values shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26¶ But the firstborn of the animals, which because it is firstborn belongs to the Lord, no one shall sanctify it; whether it is ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s.
27And if it is of an unclean beast, it shall be ransomed according to thy estimation, and they shall add a fifth part unto it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
28But no anathema, that anyone shall devote unto the Lord of all that they have of men and animals and of the fields of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. All anathema is most holy unto the Lord.
29Any anathema of men which is devoted shall not be ransomed, but shall surely be put to death.
30And all the tithes of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holiness unto the Lord.
31And if anyone desires to redeem anything of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
32And concerning the tithe of the cows or of the sheep, even of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holiness unto the Lord.
33He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it; and if he changes it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in Mount Sinai.
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