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
Dedications
1The LORD said to Moses, 2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When a person makes a solemn promise to the LORD involving the value of a person, 3if it is the value for a male between 20 and 60 years old, his value is fifty silver shekels according to the sanctuary’s shekel. 4If the person is a female, her value is thirty shekels. 5If the age of the person is between 5 and 20 years, the value for a male is twenty shekels, for a female ten shekels. 6If the age of the person is between one month and 5 years, the value for a male is five silver shekels, for a female three silver shekels. 7If the age of the person is 60 years or more, the value is fifteen shekels if the person is male, ten shekels for a female. 8But if financial difficulty prevents the promise maker from giving the full value, they must set the person before the priest. The priest will assign the person a value according to what the promise maker can afford.
9If a solemn promise involves livestock that can be offered to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD will be considered holy. 10The promise maker cannot replace or substitute for it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if one should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute will be holy. 11If the solemn promise involves any kind of unclean animal that cannot be offered to the LORD, the promise maker must set the animal before the priest. 12The priest will assign it a value, whether high or low.#27.12 Or good or bad; also in 27:14 Its value will be what the priest says. 13If the promise maker wishes to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to its value.
14When someone dedicates their house to the LORD as holy, the priest will assign a value to it, whether high or low. The value is fixed, whatever value the priest assigns to it. 15If the one who dedicates the house wishes to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to its valued price, and it will be theirs again.
16If a person dedicates part of the land from their family property to the LORD, the value will be set according to the seed needed to plant it: fifty silver shekels per homer of barley seed. 17If the person dedicates the piece of land during the Jubilee year, its value will stay fixed. 18But if the person dedicates the piece after the Jubilee year, the priest will calculate the price according to the years that are left until the next Jubilee year, and the value will be reduced. 19If the one who dedicates the land wishes to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to its valued price, and it will be theirs again. 20But if they do not buy it back or if it was sold to someone else, it is no longer able to be bought back. 21When the piece of land is released in the Jubilee year, it will be holy to the LORD like a piece of devoted land; it will be the priest’s property. 22If the person dedicates land they purchased to the LORD—land that is not part of their family property— 23the priest will calculate the amount of its value until the Jubilee year. The person must pay the value on that day as a holy donation to the LORD. 24In the Jubilee year the piece of land will return to the seller, to the one who is the original owner of the family property. 25Every value will be according to the sanctuary’s shekel. The shekel will be twenty gerahs.
26But note that a person cannot dedicate any oldest offspring from livestock, which already belongs to the LORD because it is the oldest. Whether ox or sheep, it belongs to the LORD. 27If it is an unclean animal, it may be bought back at its value plus twenty percent. If it is not bought back, it will be sold at its set value.
28Also note that everything someone devotes#27.28 Or places under the ban (also in 27:29), a technique of holy war, in which all is dedicated to the deity who helps in the battle; it often involved total destruction. to the LORD from their possessions—whether humans, animals, or pieces of land from their family property—cannot be sold or bought back. Every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD. 29No human beings that have been devoted can be bought back; they must be executed.
30All tenth-part gifts#27.30 Or tithes from the land, whether of seed from the ground or fruit from the trees, belong to the LORD; they are holy to the LORD. 31If someone wishes to buy back part of their tenth-part gift, they must add one-fifth to it. 32All tenth-part gifts from a herd or flock—every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s staff—will be holy to the LORD. 33The one bringing the tenth-part gift must not pick out the good from the bad, and cannot substitute any animal. But if one should substitute an animal, both it and the substitute will be holy and cannot be bought back.
34These are the commands that the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
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