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 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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