Chapter 27
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 amongst 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 amongst 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 .