Leviticus 27

¹The Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

²Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons ,

³then 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 .

⁴If the person is a female , the valuation shall be thirty shekels .

⁵If 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 .

⁶If 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 .

⁷And 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 .

⁸And 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 .

⁹If 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 .

¹⁰He 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 .

¹¹And 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 ,

¹²and the priest shall value it as either good or bad ; as the priest values it, so it shall be.

¹³But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation .

¹⁴When 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 .

¹⁵And if the donor wishes to redeem his house , he shall add a fifth to the valuation price , and it shall be his.

¹⁶If 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 .

¹⁷If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee , the valuation shall stand ,

¹⁸but 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 .

¹⁹And 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 .

²⁰But 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.

²¹But 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.

²²If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought , which is not a part of his possession ,

²³then 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.

²⁴In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought , to whom the land belongs as a possession .

²⁵Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary : twenty gerahs shall make a shekel .

²⁶But a firstborn of animals , which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate ; whether ox or sheep , it is the Lord ’s.

²⁷And if it is an unclean animal , then he shall buy it back at the valuation , and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed , it shall be sold at the valuation .

²⁸But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has , whether man or beast , or of his inherited field , shall be sold or redeemed ; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.

²⁹No one devoted , who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind , shall be ransomed ; he shall surely be put to death .

³⁰Every tithe of the land , whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees , is the Lord ’s; it is holy to the Lord.

³¹If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe , he shall add a fifth to it.

³²And every tithe of herds and flocks , every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff , shall be holy to the Lord.

³³One shall not differentiate between good or bad , neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy ; it shall not be redeemed .

³⁴These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai .