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Leviticus

Vows and Dedications

Leviticus 27:1-34
1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When a man makes a vow by your valuation of persons to the LORD, 3your valuation of the male shall be from twenty years of age up to sixty years of age, and your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 4If it is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5If the person is from five years of age up to twenty years of age, your valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels and of the female ten shekels. 6If the person is from one month of age up to five years of age, your valuation of the male shall be five shekels of silver and of the female three shekels of silver. 7If the person is sixty years of age or older, if a male, your valuation shall be fifteen shekels and of the female ten shekels. 8If the person is poorer than your valuation, he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall set the value for him according to what the hand of the one making the vow can afford; the priest shall set the value for him. 9If the vow concerns an animal that may be presented as an offering to the LORD, everything given from it to the LORD shall be holy. 10No one shall exchange it or substitute a good animal for a bad one or a bad one for a good one; if anyone substitutes one animal for another, both the animal and its substitute shall be holy. 11If the vow concerns any unclean animal that may not be presented as an offering to the LORD, the animal shall be presented before the priest, 12and the priest shall assess its value between good and bad; the priest's valuation shall stand. 13If the owner redeems it, he shall add one-fifth to its valuation. 14When a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, the priest shall assess its value between good and bad; as the priest assesses it, so it shall stand. 15If the one who consecrated the house redeems it, he shall add one-fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and the house shall belong to him. 16If a man consecrates to the LORD part of the field of his possession, its valuation shall be according to the amount of seed required for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. 17If he consecrates his field in the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand. 18If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest shall calculate the silver according to the number of years remaining until the year of jubilee, and a proportionate deduction shall be made from the valuation. 19If the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he shall add one-fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and the field shall belong to him. 20If he does not redeem the field but sells the field to another person, it may no longer be redeemed. 21When the field is released in the jubilee, it shall be holy to the LORD, like a field devoted to the priest; it shall become the priest's possession. 22If a man consecrates to the LORD a field that he has purchased and that is not part of his ancestral possession, 23the priest shall calculate for him the amount of the valuation up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as holy to the LORD. 24In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the seller from whom he bought it, to the one who holds the possession of the land. 25All valuations shall be made according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall constitute the shekel. 26No one may consecrate the firstborn of animals, because the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether ox or sheep, it belongs to the LORD. 27If the animal is unclean, it may be redeemed at its valuation, and one-fifth shall be added to the valuation; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its valuation. 28No devoted thing that a person devotes to the LORD, whether of people, animals, or fields of possession, may be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD. 29No person who has been devoted may be ransomed; such a person shall be put to death. 30Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD. 31If a person redeems any of the tithe, one-fifth shall be added to its value. 32Every tithe of the herd or flock, every tenth animal that passes under the staff, shall be holy to the LORD. 33The owner shall not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, nor substitute one for another; if he substitutes an animal, both the animal and its substitute shall be holy and may not be redeemed. 34These are the commandments that the LORD gave Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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