Leviticus 27

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your valuation. ³ Your valuation shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁴ If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. ⁵ If it is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. ⁶ If it is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. ⁷ If it is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

⁸ “‘But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him. According to his ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

⁹ “‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh shall be holy. ¹⁰ He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. ¹¹ If it is any unclean animal, of which they don’t offer an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest; ¹² and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest value it, so shall it be. ¹³ But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part of it to your valuation.

¹⁴ “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest values it, so shall it 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 Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed of 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 number of years that remain to the year of jubilee, and an abatement shall be made from your valuation. ¹⁹ If he who dedicates the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be assured to him. 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 Yahweh, as a devoted field. It shall be the priest’s possession.

²² “‘If he dedicates to Yahweh a field 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, even to the year of jubilee; and he shall give your valuation in that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh. ²⁴ In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, 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 shall be the shekel.

²⁶ “‘However the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man shall dedicate, whether ox or sheep. It is Yahweh’s. ²⁷ If it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it 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 Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh. ²⁹ No one devoted, 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 Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh. ³¹ If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. ³² All the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh. ³³ He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it. If he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”

³⁴ These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.