Chapter 27
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
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Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When a man makes a vow by your valuation of a person to the LORD.
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And your valuation shall be for the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, and your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver by the shekels of the holy.
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And if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
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And if it is from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be—the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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And if it is from one month old up to five years old, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
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And if it is from sixty years old and upward, if male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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And if he is too poor for your valuation, then he shall stand before the priest, and the priest shall assess him according to whatever the hand of the vower attains; the priest shall assess him.
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And if it is livestock that they present from it as an offering to the LORD, everything he gives from it to the LORD shall be holy.
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He shall not exchange it or substitute it, good for bad or bad for good. And if he substitutes one animal for another, then both it and its substitute shall be holy.
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And if it is any unclean beast that they do not present from it as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall cause the beast to stand before the priest.
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And the priest shall value it between good and bad; according to your valuation, O priest, so it shall be.
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And if a kinsman-redeemer redeems it, then he shall add its fifth to your valuation.
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And if a man sanctifies his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it between good and bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
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And if the dedicator redeems his house, then he shall add a fifth of the silver—your valuation of it—to it, and it shall be his.
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And if a man consecrates to the LORD a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to its seed: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.
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If he consecrates his field from the year of Jubilee, it shall stand at your valuation.
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And if he sanctifies his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver according to the remaining years until the year of the Jubilee, and it shall be subtracted from your valuation.
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And if the one who redeems it redeems the field that the one consecrating it has consecrated, and he adds a fifth of your valuation in silver to it, then it stands for him.
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And if he does not redeem the field, or if he sells the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed again.
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And when the field goes out in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the LORD, like a field of the ban; its possession will be to the priest.
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And if he consecrates his purchased field that is not from his hereditary field to the LORD.
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And the priest shall calculate for him the value of your valuation until the year of the Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy thing to the LORD.
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In the year of the Jubilee, the field shall return to him from whom he bought it, to the one to whom the holding of the land belongs.
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Every valuation of yours shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
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Only a firstborn among firstborns to the LORD in livestock shall a man not consecrate; if an ox, if a lamb, it belongs to the LORD.
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And if it is an unclean beast and he redeems it at your valuation, then he must add one fifth to it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold at your valuation.
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But every devoted thing that any man devotes to the LORD from all that he has—from human beings and livestock and the field of his inherited possession—shall not be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy; it belongs to the LORD.
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Every ban that one bans from humanity shall not be redeemed; he shall be put to death.
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Every tithe of the land, from the seed of the land or from the fruit of the tree, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
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And if a man redeems some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.
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And every tithe of cattle and sheep, every one that passes under the rod, the tenth, shall be holy to the LORD.
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He shall not inspect between good and evil, nor shall he exchange it. And if he exchanges it and its exchange, then it and its exchange shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
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These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.