Leviticus 27 - Prayer Tents

Redemption of Gifts Offered to the Lord

27The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H5592"Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate someone to the LORD by paying the value of that person,H1696H1121H3478H559H376H6381H5088H5315H3068H61873here is the scale of values to be used. A man between the ages of twenty and sixty is valued at fifty shekels

of silver, as measured by the sanctuary shekel.H6187H2145H6242H8141H1121H8346H8141H1121H6187H2572H8255H3701H8255H69444A woman of that age is valued at thirty shekels

of silver.H5347H6187H7970H82555A boy between the ages of five and twenty is valued at twenty shekels of silver; a girl of that age is valued at ten shekels

of silver.H2568H8141H1121H6242H8141H1121H6187H2145H6242H8255H5347H6235H82556A boy between the ages of one month and five years is valued at five shekels of silver; a girl of that age is valued at three shekels

of silver.H2320H1121H2568H8141H1121H6187H2145H2568H8255H3701H5347H6187H7969H8255H37017A man older than sixty is valued at fifteen shekels of silver; a woman of that age is valued at ten shekels

of silver.H8346H8141H1121H4605H2145H6187H2568H6240H8255H5347H6235H82558If you desire to make such a vow but cannot afford to pay the required amount, take the person to the priest. He will determine the amount for you to pay based on what you can afford.H4134H6187H5975H6440H3548H3548H6186H6310H3027H5381H5087H3548H61869"If your vow involves giving an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the LORD, any gift to the LORD will be considered holy.H929H7126H7133H3068H5414H3068H694410You may not exchange or substitute it for another animal—neither a good animal for a bad one nor a bad animal for a good one. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered holy.H2498H4171H2896H7451H7451H2896H4171H4171H929H929H8545H694411If your vow involves an unclean animal—one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD—then you must bring the animal to the priest.H2931H929H7126H7133H3068H5975H929H6440H354812He will assess its value, and his assessment will be final, whether high or low.H3548H6186H996H2896H996H7451H6187H354813If you want to buy back the animal, you must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20 percent.H1350H1350H3254H2549H618714"If someone dedicates a house to the LORD, the priest will come to assess its value. The priest's assessment will be final, whether high or low.H376H6942H1004H6944H3068H3548H6186H2896H7451H3548H6186H696515If the person who dedicated the house wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20 percent. Then the house will again be his.H6942H1350H1004H3254H2549H3701H618716"If someone dedicates to the LORD a piece of his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it—fifty shekels of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed

.H376H6942H3068H7704H272H6187H6310H2233H2563H8184H2233H2572H8255H370117If the field is dedicated to the LORD in the Year of Jubilee, then the entire assessment will apply.H6942H7704H8141H3104H6187H696518But if the field is dedicated after the Year of Jubilee, the priest will assess the land's value in proportion to the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. Its assessed value is reduced each year.H6942H7704H310H3104H3548H2803H3701H6310H8141H3498H8141H3104H1639H618719If the person who dedicated the field wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the priest, plus 20 percent. Then the field will again be legally his.H6942H7704H1350H1350H3254H2549H3701H6187H696520But if he does not want to buy it back, and it is sold to someone else, the field can no longer be bought back.H1350H7704H4376H7704H312H376H135021When the field is released in the Year of Jubilee, it will be holy, a field specially set apart

for the LORD. It will become the property of the priests.H7704H3318H3104H6944H3068H7704H2764H272H354822"If someone dedicates to the LORD a field he has purchased but which is not part of his family property,H6942H3068H7704H4736H7704H27223the priest will assess its value based on the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. On that day he must give the assessed value of the land as a sacred donation to the LORD.H3548H2803H4373H6187H8141H3104H5414H6187H3117H6944H306824In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.H8141H3104H7704H7725H7069H272H77625(All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel

, which equals twenty gerahs.)H6187H8255H6944H6242H1626H825526"You may not dedicate a firstborn animal to the LORD, for the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats already belong to him.H1060H929H3068H1069H376H6942H7794H7716H306827However, you may buy back the firstborn of a ceremonially unclean animal by paying the priest's assessment of its worth, plus 20 percent. If you do not buy it back, the priest will sell it at its assessed value.H2931H929H6299H6187H3254H2549H1350H4376H618728"However, anything specially set apart for the LORD—whether a person, an animal, or family property—must never be sold or bought back. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart as holy, and it belongs to the LORD.H2764H376H2763H3068H120H929H7704H272H4376H1350H2764H6944H6944H306829No person specially set apart for destruction may be bought back. Such a person must be put to death.H2764H3808H2763H120H6299H4191H419130"One tenth of the produce of the land, whether grain from the fields or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD and must be set apart to him as holy.H4643H776H2233H776H6529H6086H3068H6944H306831If you want to buy back the LORD's tenth of the grain or fruit, you must pay its value, plus 20 percent.H376H1350H1350H4643H3254H254932Count off every tenth animal from your herds and flocks and set them apart for the LORD as holy.H4643H1241H6629H5674H7626H6224H6944H306833You may not pick and choose between good and bad animals, and you may not substitute one for another. But if you do exchange one animal for another, then both the original animal and its substitute will be considered holy and cannot be bought back."H1239H2896H7451H4171H4171H4171H8545H6944H135034These are the commands that the LORD gave through Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.H4687H3068H6680H4872H1121H3478H2022H5514