27 The Lord said to Moses, 2 ‘Speak to Israel's people. Tell them this. A person might give another person to the Lord for a special promise. 3 They can make that person free. But they must give the right amount of money to God. For a man between 20 years and 60 years old, they must give 50 pieces of silver. 4 For a woman, they must give 30 pieces of silver. 5 For a male between five years and 20 years old, they must give to God 20 pieces of silver. For a female, they must give ten pieces of silver. 6 For a boy between one month and five years old, they must give five pieces of silver. For a girl of the same age, God must have three pieces of silver. 7 If a man is older than 60 years, they must give 15 pieces of silver. For a woman, they must give ten pieces of silver. 8 A person might say this special promise to God. But he might be too poor to pay the money. He must bring the person to the priest. The priest will tell the person how much money to pay. The priest will know how much money the man can give.
9 If the promise is to give an animal to God the animal becomes holy to the Lord . 10 The person must not change a good animal for a bad animal. He must not change a bad animal for a good animal. If the person does change one animal for another, both the animals become holy. 11 The animal might be an animal that you must not eat. And you can not give it to the Lord . If it is, the person must bring it to the priest. 12 The priest will decide if the animal is good or bad. 13 The person might want to buy the animal back. He must pay the price of the animal and one fifth more.
14 A person might give his house to the Lord . The priest will decide if the house is good or bad. The priest will decide the price of the house. 15 The person might want to buy the house back. He must pay the price of the house and one fifth more. Then it will again belong to him.
16 A person might give part of his land to the Lord . The person will decide the price by how much seed the land needs. The price will be 50 pieces of silver for a homer (220 litres) of seed. 17 If a person gives his land in a Jubilee year, the price is the same. 18 A person might give his land after the Jubilee year. The priest will count the number of years before the next Jubilee. The price will be less. 19 A person might want to buy the land back. He must pay the price of the land and one fifth more. 20 He may not buy it back before the year of Jubilee. Then the field becomes holy. But the man may have sold the land to another person. If he has, he cannot get it back. 21 In the Jubilee year the land will become holy. Then it will belong to the priests.
22 A person might buy some land from another family. He might give that land to the Lord . 23 The priest will count how many years there are until the Jubilee year. The person must pay the money on that day. The money is holy to the Lord . 24 In the Jubilee year, the land returns to the family from whom he bought it. 25 The priest must decide the price of the land. He must use the correct measures.
26 The first baby that an animal has is holy. It belongs to the Lord . A person cannot give it as a special gift to the Lord . 27 The animal might be an unclean animal (an animal that they must not eat). The person can pay the price of the animal and one fifth more to get it back. If the person does not buy it back, the priest will sell it.
28 A man might give to the Lord something that the man has. Everything that a man gives like that is holy. It might be a person, an animal or land. The priest must not sell it. A man cannot take it back. Everything that someone gives to the Lord is most holy.
29 God might decide that a person must die. If he does, nobody can buy the person back. The person must die.
30 One tenth of everything that comes from the land is holy to the Lord . It may be grain or fruit. It belongs to the Lord . 31 If a person buys back any of his gift, he must pay the price and one fifth more. 32 Out of every ten animals, one animal is holy. It belongs to the Lord . 33 A person must not change a good animal for a bad animal. A person must not change a bad animal for a good animal. If he does that, both animals are holy. They belong to God. A person cannot buy them back.’
34 These are the rules that the Lord gave to Moses on Sinai mountain. They are the rules for Israel's people.
27 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelites: You might promise to give someone to the Lord as a servant. The priest must set a price for that person. 3 The price for a man from 20 to 60 years old is 50 shekels [ a ] of silver. (You must use the official measure for the silver.) 4 The price for a woman who is 20 to 60 years old is 30 shekels. 5 The price for a man from 5 to 20 years old is 20 shekels. For a woman the price is 10 shekels. 6 The price for a boy from one month to five years old is 5 shekels. For a girl, the price is 3 shekels. 7 The price for a man who is 60 years old or older is 15 shekels. The price for a woman is 10 shekels.
8 “If anyone is too poor to pay the price, bring that person to the priest. The priest will decide how much money the person can afford to pay.
9 “You might promise to give an animal to the Lord. If it is a clean animal—one that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord —then the animal you bring will become holy. 10 You must not put any other animal in its place. Don’t try to trade a good animal for a bad one or a bad animal for a good one. If you try to change animals, both animals will become holy—they will both belong to the Lord.
11 “The animal you promised might be one that is not acceptable as an offering to the Lord . If you promised one of these unclean animals, you must bring it to the priest. 12 The priest will decide a price for that animal. It doesn’t make any difference if the animal is good or bad. If the priest decides on a price, that is the price for the animal. 13 If you want to buy back the animal, [ b ] then you must add one-fifth to the price.
14 “If you dedicate your house as holy to the Lord , the priest must decide its price. It doesn’t make any difference if the house is good or bad. If the priest decides on a price, that is the price for the house. 15 But if you want to get the house back, you must add one-fifth to the price. Then you will get the house back.
16 “You might dedicate a field to the Lord . The value of this field will depend on how much seed is needed to plant it. It will be 50 shekels of silver for each homer [ c ] of barley seed. 17 If you give your field to God during the year of Jubilee, then its value will be whatever the priest decides. 18 But if you give your field after the Jubilee, the priest must decide its exact price. He must count the number of years to the next year of Jubilee and use that number to decide the price. 19 If you want to buy the field back, you must add one-fifth to that price. Then you will get the field back. 20 If you don’t buy the field back and the land is sold to someone else, you cannot get the land back. 21 If you don’t buy the land back by the year of Jubilee, the field will remain holy to the Lord —it will belong to the priest forever. It will be treated like any other thing that was given completely to the Lord.
22 “If you dedicate a field to the Lord that you had bought, and it is not a part of your family’s property, [ d ] 23 then the priest must count the years to the year of Jubilee and decide the price for the land. Then that land will belong to the Lord . 24 At the year of Jubilee, the land will go to the family that originally owned the land.
25 “You must use the official measure in paying these prices. The shekel by that measure weighs 20 gerahs. [ e ]
26 “You can give cattle and sheep as special gifts to the Lord . But if the animal is the firstborn, it already belongs to the Lord . So you cannot give these animals as special gifts. 27 If the firstborn animal is an unclean animal, you must buy back that animal. The priest will decide the price of the animal, and you must add one-fifth to that price. If you don’t buy that animal back, the priest will sell the animal for whatever price he decides.
28 “There is a special kind of gift [ f ] that people give to the Lord . It belongs only to him, and it cannot be bought back or sold. This gift belongs to the Lord . This type of gift includes people, animals, and fields from the family property. 29 If this gift is a person, that person cannot be bought back. That person must be killed.
30 “A tenth of all crops belongs to the Lord . This means the crops from fields and the fruit from trees—a tenth belongs to the Lord . 31 So if you want to get back your tenth, you must add one-fifth to its price and then buy it back.
32 “The priests will take every tenth animal from a person’s cattle or sheep. Every tenth animal will belong to the Lord . 33 The owner should not worry if the chosen animal is good or bad or change the animal for another animal. If this happens, both animals will belong to the Lord . That animal cannot be bought back.”
34 These are the commands that the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
27 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord , all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord , then he shall present the beast before the priest:
12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord , then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the Lord , as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
22 And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord .
24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord 's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord 's.
27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord .
29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of 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 unto the Lord .
31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord .
33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
27 Again, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘ ( A ) When someone makes an explicit vow, he shall be valued according to your assessment of persons belonging to the Lord . 3 If your assessment is of a male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your assessment shall be fifty shekels of silver, by ( B ) the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 Or if [ a ] the person is a female, then your assessment shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if the person is from five years even to twenty years old, then your assessment for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. 6 But if the person is from a month even up to five years old, then your assessment shall be ( C ) five shekels of silver for a male, and for a female your assessment shall be three shekels of silver. 7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. 8 But if he is poorer than your assessment, then he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; ( D ) according to [ b ] the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall assess him.
9 ‘Now if it is an animal of the kind that [ c ] one can present as an offering to the Lord , any such animal that one gives to the Lord shall be holy. 10 ( E ) He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. 11 If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which [ d ] one does not present as an offering to the Lord , then he shall place the animal before the priest. 12 And the priest shall assess it [ e ] as either good or bad; as you, the priest, assess it, so shall it be. 13 But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.
14 ‘Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the Lord , then the priest shall assess it [ f ] as either good or bad; as the priest assesses it, so shall it stand. 15 Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.
16 ‘Again, if someone consecrates to the Lord part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be [ g ] proportionate to the seed needed for it: a [ h ] homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your assessment it shall stand. 18 If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for [ i ] him [ j ] proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your assessment. 19 If the one who consecrates it should ever want to redeem the field, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may belong to him. 20 Yet if he does not redeem the field, [ k ] but has sold the field to another person, it may no longer be redeemed; 21 and when it [ l ] reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the Lord , like a field banned from secular use; ( F ) it shall be for the priest as his property. 22 Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property, 23 then the priest shall calculate for [ m ] him the amount of your assessment up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your assessment as holy to the Lord . 24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs. 25 Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by ( G ) the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
26 ‘ ( H ) However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord , no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord ’ s . 27 But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall [ n ] redeem it according to your assessment and add to it a fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your assessment.
28 ‘Nevertheless, ( I ) [ o ] anything which someone sets apart to the Lord for [ p ] destruction out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold nor redeemed. Anything set apart for destruction is most holy to the Lord . 29 No [ q ] one who may have been [ r ] set apart among mankind shall be ransomed; he must be put to death.
30 ‘Now ( J ) all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord ’ s ; it is holy to the Lord . 31 If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it. 32 For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever ( K ) passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord . 33 ( L ) He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; yet if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”
34 ( M ) These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.
27 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If anyone makes a special vow ( A ) to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value, 3 set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels [ a ] of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel [ b ] ; ( B ) 4 for a female, set her value at thirty shekels [ c ] ; 5 for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels [ d ] ( C ) and of a female at ten shekels [ e ] ; 6 for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels [ f ] ( D ) of silver and that of a female at three shekels [ g ] of silver; 7 for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels [ h ] and of a female at ten shekels. 8 If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay ( E ) the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value ( F ) according to what the one making the vow can afford.
9 “‘If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord , ( G ) such an animal given to the Lord becomes holy. ( H ) 10 They must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; ( I ) if they should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy. 11 If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal ( J ) —one that is not acceptable as an offering to the Lord —the animal must be presented to the priest, 12 who will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is what it will be. 13 If the owner wishes to redeem ( K ) the animal, a fifth must be added to its value. ( L )
14 “‘If anyone dedicates their house as something holy to the Lord , the priest will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it will remain. 15 If the one who dedicates their house wishes to redeem it, ( M ) they must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become theirs.
16 “‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver to a homer [ i ] of barley seed. 17 If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains. 18 But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, ( N ) the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain ( O ) until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced. 19 If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, ( P ) they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs. 20 If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed. 21 When the field is released in the Jubilee, ( Q ) it will become holy, ( R ) like a field devoted to the Lord ; ( S ) it will become priestly property.
22 “‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land, 23 the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, ( T ) and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the Lord . 24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, ( U ) the one whose land it was. 25 Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, ( V ) twenty gerahs ( W ) to the shekel.
26 “‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord ; ( X ) whether an ox [ j ] or a sheep, it is the Lord ’s. 27 If it is one of the unclean animals, ( Y ) it may be bought back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If it is not redeemed, it is to be sold at its set value.
28 “‘But nothing that a person owns and devotes [ k ] ( Z ) to the Lord —whether a human being or an animal or family land—may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy ( AA ) to the Lord .
29 “‘No person devoted to destruction [ l ] may be ransomed; they are to be put to death. ( AB )
30 “‘A tithe ( AC ) of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord ; it is holy ( AD ) to the Lord . 31 Whoever would redeem ( AE ) any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value ( AF ) to it. 32 Every tithe of the herd and flock—every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod ( AG ) —will be holy to the Lord . 33 No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. ( AH ) If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed. ( AI ) ’”
34 These are the commands the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai ( AJ ) for the Israelites. ( AK )
