THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS

 

Leviticus Chapter 27

1 ¶ And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man makes a special vow, to give persons to the LORD according to the price you set.

3 Then your evaluation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old, shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

4 And if it is a female, then your estimation shall be thirty shekels.

5 And if it is from five years old to twenty years old, then your estimation shall be twenty shekels for the male, and for the female ten shekels.

6 And if it is from a month old to five years old, then your estimation shall be five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

7 And if it is from sixty years old and above; if it is a male, then your estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

8 But if the person is too poor to pay the price you set, then he shall present himself to the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of the one who vowed he shall value him.

9 And if it is a beast, such as men offer as an offering to the LORD, all of such that any man gives to the LORD shall be holy.

10 He shall not substitute anything for it, or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if one animal is exchanged for another, then both animals shall be holy.

11 And if it is an unclean beast, such as cannot be offered as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

12 And the priest shall decide its value, whether it is good or bad: as you, the priest value it, so shall it be.

13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part to the value you have given it.

14 ¶ And when anyone gives his house as something holy to the LORD, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest evaluates it, so shall it stand.

15 And if he who consecrated it wants to redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money to the value you have given it, and it shall be his.

16 And if a man consecrates to the LORD any part of a field that he owns, then your evaluation shall be according to the seed sown on it: a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

17 If he consecrates his field during the year of jubilee, the price will stand according to your evaluation.

18 But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price for him according to the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your evaluation.

19 And if the one who consecrated the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your evaluation to it, and it shall be assured to him.

20 And if he does not redeem the field, and it is sold to someone else, he cannot buy it back.

21 But when the field is released in the jubilee, it will be holy and belong to the LORD, like a field totally given to God; the priest shall be in possession of it.

22 And if a man consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of his ancestral possession;

23 Then the priest shall calculate to him its value, up to the year of jubilee: the man shall give that amount on that day, as a holy thing to the LORD.

24 At the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as an ancestral possession.

25 And all your evaluations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.

26 ¶ But the firstborn of an animal, already being the LORD’S by being born first, cannot be given as a holy thing; whether it is an ox, or a sheep: it is the LORD’S.

27 And if it is an unclean animal, then it can be bought back according to the price you set, with a fifth part added to it: or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your evaluation.

28 However if a man devotes anything that he has unconditionally to the LORD of all that he has, both of man and beast, and of the fields that he possesses, it shall not be sold or redeemed: everything so devoted is very holy to the LORD.

29 No one devoted, who is sentenced to death by 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 And if a man wishes to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add a fifth to it.

32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatever passes under the shepherd’s rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD.

33 He shall not look to see if it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it: and if he does exchange it, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; and cannot be bought back.

34 These are the commandments, that the LORD gave Moses on mount Sinai for the children of Israel.