Leviticus 27
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1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give the price according to estimation.
3If it be a man from twenty years old unto sixty years old, he shall give fifty sicles of silver, after the weight of the sanctuary:
4If a woman, thirty.
5But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give twenty sicles: a woman ten.
6From one month until the fifth year, for a male shall be given five sicles: for a female three.
7A man that is sixty years old or upward shall give fifteen sicles: a woman ten.
8If he be poor, and not able to pay the estimation, he shall stand before the priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him able to pay, so much shall he give.
9But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if any one shall vow, shall be holy,
10And cannot be changed: that is to say, neither a better for a worse, nor a worse for a better. And if he shall change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be consecrated to the Lord.
11An unclean beast, which cannot be sacrificed to the Lord, if any man shall vow, shall be brought before the priest:
12Who judging whether it be good or bad shall set the price.
13Which, if he that offereth it will give, he shall add above the estimation the fifth part.
14If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the priest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad: and it shall be sold according to the price, which he shall appoint.
15But if he that vowed will redeem it, he shall give the fifth part of the estimation over and above: and shall have the house.
16And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver.
17If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning: as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.
18But if some time after, the priest shall reckon the money according to the number of years that remain until the jubilee, and the price shall be abated.
19And if he that had vowed will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.
20And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man, he that vowed it may not redeem it any more.
21For when the day of jubilee cometh, it shall be sanctified to the Lord: and as a possession consecrated pertaineth to the right of the priests.
22If a field that was bought, and not of a man's ancestors' possession, be sanctified to the Lord:
23The priest shall reckon the price according to the number of years, unto the jubilee. And he that had vowed shall give that to the Lord.
24But in the jubilee it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.
25All estimation shall be made according to the sicle of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
26The firstborn, which belong to the Lord, no man may sanctify and vow: whether it be bullock, or sheep, they are the Lord's.
27And if it be an unclean beast, he that offereth it shall redeem it, according to thy estimation, and shall add the fifth part of the price. If he will not redeem it, it shall be sold to another for how much soever it was estimated by thee.
28Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, shall not be sold: neither may it be redeemed. Whatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord.
29And any consecration that is offered by man shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die.
30All tithes of the land, whether of corn, or of the fruits of trees, are the Lord's, and are sanctified to him.
31And if any man will redeem his tithes, he shall add the fifth part of them.
32Of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, that pass under the shepherd's rod, every tenth that cometh shall be sanctified to the Lord.
33It shall not be chosen neither good nor bad, neither shall it be changed for another. If any man change it: both that which was changed, and that for which it was changed, shall be sanctified to the Lord, and shall not be redeemed.
34These are the precepts which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
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Vayikra (Lev) 27
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1(RY: vi; LY: iv) Adonai said to Moshe, 2“Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘If someone makes a clearly defined vow to Adonai to give him an amount equal to the value of a human being, 3the value you are to assign to a man between the ages of twenty and sixty years is to be fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds], with the sanctuary shekel being the standard, 4if a woman, thirty shekels. 5If it is a child five to twenty years old, assign a value of twenty shekels for a boy and ten for a girl; 6if a baby one month to five years of age, five shekels for a boy and three for a girl; 7if a person past sixty, fifteen shekels for a man and ten for a woman. 8If the person is too poor to be evaluated, set him before the cohen, who will assign him a value in keeping with the means of the person who made the vow.
9“‘If the vow is for the value of an animal of the kind used when people bring an offering to Adonai, all that a person gives of such animals to Adonai will be holy. 10He is not to exchange or replace it by substituting a good animal for a bad one or vice versa; if he does make such a substitution, both the original animal and the one replacing it will be holy. 11If the animal is an unclean one, such as may not be used in an offering to Adonai, he must set it before the cohen; 12and the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by you the cohen will stand. 13But if the person making the vow wishes to redeem the animal, he must add one-fifth to your valuation.
14“‘When a person consecrates his house to be holy for Adonai, the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by the cohen will stand. 15If the consecrator wishes to redeem his house, he must add one-fifth to the value you have set on it; and it will revert to him.
(RY: vii, LY: v) 16“‘If a person consecrates to Adonai part of a field belonging to his tribe’s possession, you are to value it according to its production, with five bushels of barley being valued at fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds]. 17If he consecrates his field during the year of yovel, this valuation will stand. 18But if he consecrates his field after the yovel, then the cohen is to calculate the price according to the years remaining till the next yovel, with a corresponding reduction from your valuation. 19If the one consecrating the field wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to your valuation, and the field will be set aside to revert to him. 20If the seller does not wish to redeem the field, or if [the treasurer for the cohanim] has already sold the field to someone else, it can no longer be redeemed. 21But when the purchaser has to vacate the field in the yovel, it will become holy to Adonai, like a field unconditionally consecrated; it will belong to the cohanim.
(LY: vi) 22“‘If he consecrates to Adonai a field which he has bought, a field which is not part of his tribe’s possession, 23then the cohen is to calculate its value according to the years remaining until the year of yovel; and the man will on that same day pay this amount; since it is holy to Adonai. 24In the year of yovel the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, that is, to the person to whose tribal possession it belongs.
25“‘All your valuations are to be according to the sanctuary shekel [two-fifths of an ounce], twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26“‘However, the firstborn among animals, since it is already born as a firstborn for Adonai, no one can consecrate — neither ox nor sheep — since it belongs to Adonai already. 27But if it is an unclean animal, he may redeem it at the price at which you value it and add one-fifth; or if he does not redeem it, it is to be sold at the price at which you value it. 28However, nothing consecrated unconditionally which a person may consecrate to Adonai out of all he owns — person, animal or field he possesses — is to be sold or redeemed; because everything consecrated unconditionally is especially holy to Adonai. (LY: vii) 29No person who has been sentenced to die, and thus unconditionally consecrated, can be redeemed; he must be put to death.
30“‘All the tenth given from the land, whether from planted seed or fruit from trees, belongs to Adonai; it is holy to Adonai. 31If someone wants to redeem any of his tenth, he must add to it one-fifth.
(Maftir) 32“‘All the tenth from the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd’s crook, the tenth one will be holy to Adonai. 33The owner is not to inquire whether the animal is good or bad, and he cannot exchange it; if he does exchange it, both it and the one he substituted for it will be holy; it cannot be redeemed.’”
34These are the mitzvot which Adonai gave to Moshe for the people of Isra’el on Mount Sinai.
Haftarah B’chukkotai: Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 16:19–17:14
B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B’chukkotai: Yochanan (John) 14:15–21; 15:10–12; 1 Yochanan (1 John)
Hazak, hazak, v’nit’chazek!
Be strong, be strong, and let us be strengthened!
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