Leviticus 27Book 3 of 66 · 34 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

  1. Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  2. Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When anyone makes a special vow to consecrate 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 assessment 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 of silver.
  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 the person is 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 the person is 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 what the one who vowed can afford, the priest shall value him.
  9. If the vow involves an animal that may be brought 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 does in fact exchange animal for animal, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.
  11. If it is an unclean animal of the kind which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest.
  12. The priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, assess it, so it shall be final.
  13. But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to the assessed valuation.
  14. And when a man dedicates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall assess its value, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
  15. If he who consecrated it wishes 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 proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
  17. If he dedicates his field during 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 calculate the price for him according to the years that remain until 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 wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
  21. But the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD as a field devoted, and it shall become the property of the priest.
  22. And if a man dedicates to the LORD a field which he has purchased, which is not part of the field of his family possession,
  23. Then the priest shall calculate for him the amount 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 original owner who possessed the land.
  25. All your valuations shall be measured according to the standard sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  26. However, the firstborn of the animals, which as a firstborn already belongs to the LORD, no man shall dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.
  27. And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation and 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 permanently 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 has been set apart for destruction among men shall be ransomed but shall surely be put to death.
  30. Every tithe of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD and is holy to the LORD.
  31. If a man wishes to redeem any part of his tithe, he shall add one-fifth to its value.
  32. And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever passes under the shepherd's rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.
  33. He shall not inspect 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 gave through Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.