1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and
say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a
person to the LORD in a vow, according to
your valuation,
3 your valuation of a male from twenty
years old to sixty years old shall be fifty
shekels of silver, according to the shekel†
of the sanctuary.
4 If she is a female, then your valuation
shall be thirty shekels.
5 If the person is from five years old to
twenty years old, then your valuation shall
be for a male twenty shekels, and for a
female ten shekels.
6 If the person is from a month old to
five years old, then your valuation shall
be for a male five shekels of silver, and
for a female your valuation shall be three
shekels of silver.
7 If the person is from sixty years old
and upward; if he is a male, then your
valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for
a female ten shekels.
8 But if he is poorer than your valuation,
then he shall be set before the priest, and
the priest shall assign a value to him. The
priest shall assign a value according to his
ability to pay.
9 “ ‘If it is an animal of which men offer
an offering to the LORD, all that any man
gives of such to the LORD becomes holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor exchange it,
a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If
he shall at all exchange animal for animal,
then both it and that for which it is exchanged
shall be holy.
11 If it is any unclean animal, of which
they do not offer as an offering to the
LORD, then he shall set the animal before
the priest;
12 and the priest shall evaluate it,
whether it is good or bad. As the priest
evaluates it, so it shall be.
13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he
shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
14 “ ‘When a man dedicates his house to
be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall
evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As
the priest evaluates it, so it shall stand.
15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his
house, then he shall add the fifth part of the
money of your valuation to it, and it shall
be his.
16 “ ‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part
of the field of his possession, then your
valuation shall be according to the seed for
it. The sowing of a homer‡ of barley shall
be valued at fifty shekels§ of silver.
17 If he dedicates his field from the Year
of Jubilee, according to your valuation it
shall stand.
18 But if he dedicates his field after the
Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him
the money according to the years that remain
to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement
shall be made from your valuation.
19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed
redeem it, then he shall add the fifth
part of the money of your valuation to it,
and it shall remain his.
20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he
has sold the field to another man, it shall
not be redeemed any more;
21 but the field, when it goes out in the
Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a
devoted field. It shall be owned by the
priests.
22 “ ‘If he dedicates a field to the LORD
which he has bought, which is not of the
field of his possession,
23 then the priest shall reckon to him the
worth of your valuation up to the Year of
Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation
on that day, as a holy thing to the LORD.
24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall
return to him from whom it was bought,
even to him to whom the possession of the
land belongs.
25 All your valuations shall be according
to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs†
to the shekel.‡
26 “ ‘However the firstborn among animals,
which belongs to the LORD as a firstborn,
no man may dedicate, whether an ox
or a sheep. It is the LORD’s.
27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall
buy it back according to your valuation,
and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or
if it isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to your valuation.
28 “ ‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing
that a man devotes to the LORD of all that
he has, whether of man or animal, or of
the field of his possession, shall be sold or
redeemed. Everything that is permanently
devoted is most holy to the LORD.
29 “ ‘No one devoted to destruction, who
shall be devoted from among men, shall be
ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.
30 “ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of
the seed of the land or of the fruit of the
trees, is the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD.
31 If a man redeems anything of his tithe,
he shall add a fifth part to it.
32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks,
whatever passes under the rod, the tenth
shall be holy to the LORD.
33 He shall not examine whether it is
good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If
he exchanges it at all, then both it and that
for which it is exchanged shall be holy. It
shall not be redeemed.’ ” 34 These are the commandments which
the LORD commanded Moses for the children
of Israel on Mount Sinai.
The End of the Book of Leviticus
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