Leviticus Chapter 27
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Leviticus 27:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 27:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons,
Leviticus 27:3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27:4 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Leviticus 27:5 If 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.
Leviticus 27:6 If 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.
Leviticus 27:7 And 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.
Leviticus 27:8 And 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.
Leviticus 27:9 “If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy.
Leviticus 27:10 He 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.
Leviticus 27:11 And 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,
Leviticus 27:12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.
Leviticus 27:13 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
Leviticus 27:14 “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.
Leviticus 27:15 And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
Leviticus 27:16 “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 of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,
Leviticus 27:18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
Leviticus 27:19 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.
Leviticus 27:20 But 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.
Leviticus 27:21 But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.
Leviticus 27:22 If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,
Leviticus 27:23 then 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.