Leviticus 27

Redeeming Persons and Property Dedicated to God

1 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 Lords firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the Lords.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 Lords. 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.

LEVITICUS 27

Making Promises //to the [Lord]

1 The [Lord] told Moses

2 to say to the community of Israel:
If you ever want to free someone who has been promised to me,

3-7 you may do so by paying the following amounts, weighed according to the official standards:
50 pieces of silver for men
ages 20 to 60,
and 30 pieces for women;
20 pieces of silver
for young men ages 5 to 20,
and 10 pieces
for young women;
15 pieces of silver for men
ages 60 and above
and 10 pieces for women;
5 pieces of silver for boys
ages 1 month to 5 years,
and 3 pieces for girls.

8 If you have promised to give someone to me and can't afford to pay the full amount for that person's release, you will be taken to a priest, and he will decide how much you can afford.
9 If you promise to sacrifice an animal to me, it becomes holy, and there is no way you can set it free. 10 If you try to substitute any other animal, no matter how good, for the one you promised, they will both become holy and must be sacrificed. 11 Donkeys are unfit for sacrifice, so if you promise me a donkey, t you must bring it to the priest, 12 and let him determine its value.

13 But if you want to buy it back, you must pay an additional 20 percent.
14 If you promise a house to me, a priest will set the price, whatever the condition of the house.

15 But if you decide to buy it back, you must pay an additional 20 percent.
16 If you promise part of your family's land to me, its value must be determined by the amount of seed needed to plant the land, and the rate will be ten pieces of silver for every 20 kilograms of seed. 17 If this promise is made in the Year of Celebration, t the land will be valued at the full price. 18 But any time after that, the price will be figured according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration. 19 If you decide to buy back the land, you must pay the price plus an additional 20 percent, 20 but you cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it.

21 When the Year of Celebration comes, the land becomes holy because it belongs to me, and it will be given to the priests.
22 If you promise me a field that you have bought, 23 its value will be decided by a priest, according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration, and the money you pay will be mine. 24 However, on the next Year of Celebration, the land will go back to the family of its original owner.

25 Every price will be set by the official standards.

Various Offerings

The [Lord] said:

27 If you promise me a donkey, t you may buy it back by adding an additional 20 percent to its value. If you don't buy it back, it can be sold to someone else for whatever a priest has said it is worth.
28  t Anything that you completely dedicate to me must be completely destroyed.t It cannot be bought back or sold. Every person, animal, and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me.

29 In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put to death.
30  t Ten percent of everything you harvest is holy and belongs to me, whether it grows in your fields or on your fruit trees.

31 If you want to buy back this part of your harvest, you may do so by paying what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent.
32 When you count your flocks and herds, one out of ten of every newborn animalt is holy and belongs to me,

33 no matter how good or bad it is. If you substitute one animal for another, both of them become holy, and neither can be bought back.
34 Moses was on Mount Sinai when the [Lord] gave him these laws for the people of Israel.