Leviticus 27New King James Version (NKJV)
Redeeming Persons and Property Dedicated to God
27 Now the Lord spoke to Moses,
saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say
to them: ‘When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the Lord,
according to your valuation, 3 if your valuation is
of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation
shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the
sanctuary. 4 If it is a female,
then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; 5 and
if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male
shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; 6 and
if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall
be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three
shekels of silver; 7 and if from sixty years old
and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be
fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
8 ‘But if he is too poor to pay your
valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest
shall set a value for him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest
shall value him.
9 ‘If it is an
animal that men may bring as an offering to the Lord, all that anyone gives
to the Lord shall be holy. 10 He shall
not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at
all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it
shall be holy. 11 If it is an
unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the Lord, then he
shall present the animal before the priest; 12 and
the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the
priest, value it, so it shall be. 13 But if
he wants at all to redeem it, then he must
add one-fifth to your valuation.
14 ‘And when a man dedicates his
house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a
value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall
stand. 15 If he who dedicated it wants to redeem
his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and
it shall be his.
16 ‘If a man dedicates to
the Lord part of a field of his possession, then your
valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall
be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If
he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it
shall stand. 18 But if he dedicates his field after
the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the
years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your
valuation. 19 And if he who dedicates the field
ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your
valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. 20 But
if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another
man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; 21 but the
field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a
devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest.
22 ‘And if a man dedicates to
the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his
possession, 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the
worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your
valuation on that day as a holy offering to
the Lord. 24 In the Year of Jubilee the field
shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the
land as a possession. 25 And all your valuations
shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26 ‘But the firstborn of the animals,
which should be the Lord’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it
is an ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 And
if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according
to your valuation, and shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed,
then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28 ‘Nevertheless no devoted offering that
a man may devote to the Lord of all that he has, both man
and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every
devoted offering is most holy to the Lord. 29 No
person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be
redeemed, but shall surely be put to death. 30 And
all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the
land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s.
It is holy to the Lord. 31 If
a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add
one-fifth to it. 32 And concerning the tithe of the
herd or the flock, of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be
holy to the Lord. 33 He shall not inquire
whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at
all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; it shall not be
redeemed.’”
34 These are the
commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of
Israel on Mount Sinai.
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