Leviticus 27
27
Laws About Vows
1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone #[Judg. 11:30, 31, 39; 1 Sam. 1:11, 28; See Num. 30]makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, 3then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels#27:3 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams of silver, according to the #ver. 25; See Ex. 30:13shekel of the sanctuary. 4If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.
9“If the vow#27:9 Hebrew it is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. 10#ver. 33He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. 11And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, 12and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. 13#ver. 15, 19 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a #ch. 22:14fifth to the valuation.
14“When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15#ver. 13 And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a #[See ver. 13 above]fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
16“If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer#27:16 A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, 18but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall #ver. 23; ch. 25:15, 16calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. 19#ver. 13 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a #[See ver. 13 above]fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. 20But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore. 21But the field, #ch. 25:28, 30, 31, 33, 41 when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been #ver. 28 devoted. The priest shall be in #Num. 18:14; Ezek. 44:29possession of it. 22If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, #ch. 25:10, 25which is not a part of his possession, 23#ver. 18then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord. 24#ch. 25:28In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. 25Every valuation shall be according to #ver. 3 the shekel of the sanctuary: #See Ex. 30:13twenty gerahs#27:25 A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram shall make a shekel.
26“But a #See Ex. 13:2firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, #ver. 11-13and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.
28“But #ver. 21; Josh. 6:17-19; 1 Sam. 15:21no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29#[Num. 21:2; Judg. 11:35]No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction#27:29 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction) from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
30 #
Gen. 14:20; 28:22; Num. 18:21, 24; Deut. 14:28; 2 Chr. 31:5, 6, 12; Neh. 13:12; Mal. 3:8, 10 “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that #Ezek. 20:37; [Jer. 33:13]pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33One shall not differentiate between good or bad, #ver. 10neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”
34 # ch. 26:46 These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel #ch. 25:1; 26:46on Mount Sinai.
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Leviticus 27
27
Promises Are Important
1The Lord said to Moses, 2“Tell the Israelites: You might promise to give someone to the Lord as a servant. The priest must set a price for that person. 3The price for a man from 20 to 60 years old is 50 shekels#27:3 shekel 2/5 of an ounce (11.5 g). Also in verse 16. of silver. (You must use the official measure for the silver.) 4The price for a woman who is 20 to 60 years old is 30 shekels. 5The price for a man from 5 to 20 years old is 20 shekels. For a woman the price is 10 shekels. 6The price for a boy from one month to five years old is 5 shekels. For a girl, the price is 3 shekels. 7The price for a man who is 60 years old or older is 15 shekels. The price for a woman is 10 shekels.
8“If anyone is too poor to pay the price, bring that person to the priest. The priest will decide how much money the person can afford to pay.
Gifts to the Lord
9“You might promise to give an animal to the Lord. If it is a clean animal—one that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord—then the animal you bring will become holy. 10You must not put any other animal in its place. Don’t try to trade a good animal for a bad one or a bad animal for a good one. If you try to change animals, both animals will become holy—they will both belong to the Lord.
11“The animal you promised might be one that is not acceptable as an offering to the Lord. If you promised one of these unclean animals, you must bring it to the priest. 12The priest will decide a price for that animal. It doesn’t make any difference if the animal is good or bad. If the priest decides on a price, that is the price for the animal. 13If you want to buy back the animal,#27:13 buy back the animal See Ex. 13:1-16 for the laws about giving to God or “buying back” firstborn children or animals. then you must add one-fifth to the price.
The Value of a House
14“If you dedicate your house as holy to the Lord, the priest must decide its price. It doesn’t make any difference if the house is good or bad. If the priest decides on a price, that is the price for the house. 15But if you want to get the house back, you must add one-fifth to the price. Then you will get the house back.
The Value of a Field
16“You might dedicate a field to the Lord. The value of this field will depend on how much seed is needed to plant it. It will be 50 shekels of silver for each homer#27:16 homer A measure equal to about 7 bushels or about 60 gallons (220 l). of barley seed. 17If you give your field to God during the year of Jubilee, then its value will be whatever the priest decides. 18But if you give your field after the Jubilee, the priest must decide its exact price. He must count the number of years to the next year of Jubilee and use that number to decide the price. 19If you want to buy the field back, you must add one-fifth to that price. Then you will get the field back. 20If you don’t buy the field back and the land is sold to someone else, you cannot get the land back. 21If you don’t buy the land back by the year of Jubilee, the field will remain holy to the Lord—it will belong to the priest forever. It will be treated like any other thing that was given completely to the Lord.
22“If you dedicate a field to the Lord that you had bought, and it is not a part of your family’s property,#27:22 family’s property In ancient Israel, land was given by God to the family, not the individual. Usually it could not be sold, only leased for up to 50 years. 23then the priest must count the years to the year of Jubilee and decide the price for the land. Then that land will belong to the Lord. 24At the year of Jubilee, the land will go to the family that originally owned the land.
25“You must use the official measure in paying these prices. The shekel by that measure weighs 20 gerahs.#27:25 gerahs 1/50 of an ounce (.6 g).
Value of Animals
26“You can give cattle and sheep as special gifts to the Lord. But if the animal is the firstborn, it already belongs to the Lord. So you cannot give these animals as special gifts. 27If the firstborn animal is an unclean animal, you must buy back that animal. The priest will decide the price of the animal, and you must add one-fifth to that price. If you don’t buy that animal back, the priest will sell the animal for whatever price he decides.
Special Gifts
28“There is a special kind of gift#27:28 special kind of gift This usually means things taken in war. These things (gifts) belonged only to the Lord, so they could not be used for anything else. that people give to the Lord. It belongs only to him, and it cannot be bought back or sold. This gift belongs to the Lord. This type of gift includes people, animals, and fields from the family property. 29If this gift is a person, that person cannot be bought back. That person must be killed.
30“A tenth of all crops belongs to the Lord. This means the crops from fields and the fruit from trees—a tenth belongs to the Lord. 31So if you want to get back your tenth, you must add one-fifth to its price and then buy it back.
32“The priests will take every tenth animal from a person’s cattle or sheep. Every tenth animal will belong to the Lord. 33The owner should not worry if the chosen animal is good or bad or change the animal for another animal. If this happens, both animals will belong to the Lord. That animal cannot be bought back.”
34These are the commands that the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
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