Leviticus 27
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the children of Israel, and
thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall vow a vow as the valuation of his soul
for the Lord, 3 the valuation of a
male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be—his valuation shall be
fifty didrachms of silver by the standard of the sanctuary.
4 And the valuation of a female shall
be thirty didrachms. 5 And if it be
from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty
didrachms, and of a female ten didrachms.
6 And from a month old to five years
old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachms, and of a female, three
didrachms of silver. 7 And if from
sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, his
valuation shall be fifteen didrachms of silver, and if a female, ten
didrachms. 8 And if the man be too
poor for the valuation, he shall stand before the priest; and the priest shall
value him: according to what the man who has vowed can afford, the priest
shall value him.
9 And if it be from the cattle that
are offered as a gift to the Lord, whoever shall offer one of these to the
Lord, it shall be holy. 10 He shall
not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he do at all
change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of
which none are offered as a gift to the Lord, he shall set the beast before
the priest. 12 And the priest shall
make a valuation between the good and the bad, and accordingly as the priest
shall value it, so shall it stand.
13 And if
the worshipper will at all redeem it, he shall add
the fifth part to its value. 14 And
whatsoever man shall consecrate his house as holy to the Lord, the priest
shall make a valuation of it between the good and the bad: as the priest shall
value it, so shall it stand. 15 And
if he that has sanctified it should redeem his house, he shall add to it the
fifth part of the money of the valuation, and it shall be his.
16 And if a man should hallow to the
Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be
according to its seed, fifty didrachms of silver for a homer of barley.
17 And if he should sanctify his
field from the year of release, it shall stand according to his valuation.
18 And if he should sanctify his
field in the latter time after the release, the priest shall reckon to him the
money for the remaining years, until the next year of
release, and it shall be deducted as an equivalent from his full valuation.
19 And if he that sanctified the
field would redeem it, he shall add to its value the fifth part of the money,
and it shall be his. 20 And if he do
not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not
after redeem it. 21 But the field
shall be holy to the Lord after the release, as separated land; the priest
shall have possession of it. 22 And
if he should consecrate to the Lord of a field which he has bought, which is
not of the field of his possession,
23 the priest shall reckon to him the
full valuation from the year of release, and he shall pay the valuation in
that day as holy to the Lord.
24 And in the year of release the
land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the
possession of the land was. 25 And
every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli.
26 And every first-born which shall
be produced among thy cattle shall be the Lord's, and no man shall sanctify
it: whether calf or sheep, it is the Lord's.
27 But if he should redeem an unclean
beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and
it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its
valuation.
28 And every dedicated thing which a
man shall dedicate to the Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of
the field of his possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every
devoted thing shall be most holy to the Lord.
29 And whatever shall be dedicated of
men, shall not be ransomed, but shall be surely put to death.
30 Every tithe of the land, both of
the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord's, holy to the
Lord. 31 And if a man should at all
redeem his tithe, he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his.
32 And every tithe of oxen, and of
sheep, and whatsoever may come in numbering under the rod, the tenth shall be
holy to the Lord. 33 Thou shalt not
change a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if thou shouldest at all
change it, its equivalent also shall be holy, it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments which
the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in mount Sina.