Leviticus 27
27
Funding the Sanctuary
1The Lord spoke to Moses: 2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow # Lv 27:8 to the Lord that involves the assessment of people, 3if the assessment concerns a male from 20 to 60 years old, your assessment is 50 silver shekels # 2Kg 15:20 measured by the standard sanctuary shekel. # Ex 30:13; Lv 5:15; 27:25; Nm 3:47 4If the person is a female, your assessment is 30 shekels. # Ex 21:32 5If the person is from five to 20 years old, your assessment for a male is 20 shekels # Gn 37:28 and for a female 10 shekels. 6If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels, # Nm 3:46-47; 18:15-16 and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver. 7If the person is 60 years or more, your assessment is 15 shekels for a male and 10 shekels for a female. 8But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he must present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.
9“If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the Lord, any of these he gives to the Lord will be holy. 10He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. # Mal 1:8 But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
11“If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest. 12The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you. 13If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the # Lit your assessed value. # Gn 47:24; Lv 5:16; 6:5
14“When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it. 15But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the # Lit your assessed value, and it will be his. # Lv 25:29-31
16“If a man consecrates to the Lord any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of 50 silver shekels for every five bushels # Lit for a homer of barley seed. # Or grain 17If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, # Lv 25:10 the price will stand according to your assessment. 18But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced. 19If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the # Lit your assessed value, and the field will transfer back to him. 20But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable. 21When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the Lord like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.
22“If a person consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding, 23then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the # Lit your assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the Lord. 24In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, # Lv 25:28 the original owner. 25All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, 20 gerahs to the shekel. # Ex 30:13; Nm 18:16; Ezk 45:12
26“But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the Lord, because a firstborn already belongs to the Lord. # Ex 13:2,15; 34:19; Nm 18:15 27If it is one of the unclean livestock, it must be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment. # Ex 13:13; 34:20
28“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord. 29No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death. # Nm 21:1-3; 31:7,13-17; Jos 6:17; 1Sm 15:17-33
30“Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; # Nm 18:21-32; Dt 14:22-29; Neh 10:37-39 it is holy to the Lord. 31If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value. 32Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd’s rod, # Gn 28:22; 2Ch 31:6; Jr 33:13 will be holy to the Lord. 33He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; # Lv 12:4; 25:12 they cannot be redeemed.” # Lv 27:10
34These are the commands the Lord gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai. # Nm 36:13
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Leviticus 27
27
Laws Concerning Vows
1And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When a man makes a special vow to the Lord # Nu 6:2; Dt 23:21–23 based on the equivalent value # 27:2 Shorthand for the formula in Lev 5:15. of persons, 3then the equivalent value of a male from twenty to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels # 27:3 About 11/4 pounds, or 575 grams; and in v. 16. of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. # Ex 30:13; Lev 27:25 # 27:3 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. # 27:4 About 12 ounces, or 345 grams. 5If the person is five to twenty years old, then the equivalent value shall be twenty shekels # 27:5 About 8 ounces, or 230 grams. for a male and ten shekels # 27:5 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 # 27:6 About 2 ounces, or 58 grams. for a male and three shekels # 27:6 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 # 27:7 About 6 ounces, or 175 grams. for a male and ten shekels for a female. 8But if he is too poor to afford the equivalent value, # Lev 14:21–22 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. 13But if he plans on redeeming it, then he shall add one-fifth to the equivalent value. # Lev 27:15, 19
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. 15If 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 # 27:16 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, 18but 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. # Lev 25:15–16 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. 21But when the field is released in the Jubilee, # Lev 25:10 it shall be holy to the Lord as a devoted field; it shall become the possession of the priest. # Nu 18:14; Eze 44:29
22If a man consecrates to the Lord a field that he purchased, which is not part of his land property, 23then 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. # Lev 27:18 24In 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. # Lev 25:28 25All your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: Twenty gerahs # 27:25 About 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram. shall be one shekel. # Ex 30:13; Nu 3:47
26A firstborn of animals, which as firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. # Ex 13:2, 12–13 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.
28Anything 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. # Jos 6:17–19
29No one devoted of men, who shall be doomed to death, shall be redeemed; he shall surely be put to death.
30Any tithe of the land, # Ge 14:20; 28:22 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. 32Any tithe of herd or flock, all that passes under the counting staff, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. # Jer 33:13; Eze 20:37 33A 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. # Lev 27:10 It shall not be redeemed.
34These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai. # Lev 26:46
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