Leviticus 27
1 The LORD spoke to Moses:
2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD, setting a value on a person:
3 The value for a male from twenty to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
4 If the person is female, the value shall be thirty shekels.
5 From five to twenty years old, the value for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.
6 From one month to five years old, the value for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female, three shekels of silver.
7 From sixty years old and above, if male, the value shall be fifteen shekels, and if female, ten shekels.
8 If the person is too poor to pay the set value, the person shall be presented to the priest, and the priest shall set a value; according to what the one who made the vow can afford, the priest shall set the value.
9 If it is an animal of the kind offered as a sacrifice to the LORD, everything given to the LORD from it shall be holy.
10 You must not exchange it or substitute another for it, a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one. If you do substitute one animal for another, both it and its substitute shall be holy.
11 If it is any unclean animal, of the kind not offered as a sacrifice to the LORD, the animal shall be presented to the priest.’”
12 “‘The priest shall set its value, whether good or bad; whatever value the priest sets, that is what it shall be.
13 If the owner wants to redeem it, an additional fifth shall be added to its set value.
14 When someone consecrates a house as holy to the LORD, the priest shall set its value, whether good or bad; whatever value the priest sets, that is what it shall be.
15 If the one who consecrated it wants to redeem the house, that person shall add a fifth of the assessed amount in silver, and the house shall be theirs.
16 If someone consecrates to the LORD part of the field that is their own property, its value shall be based on the amount of seed needed to sow it: a homer of barley seed shall be worth fifty shekels of silver.
17 If the person consecrates the field from the year of jubilee onward, it shall remain at its assessed value.
18 But if the person consecrates the field after the jubilee, the priest shall calculate the silver according to the years remaining until the year of jubilee, and its value shall be reduced accordingly.
19 If the one who consecrated the field wants to redeem it, that person shall add a fifth of the assessed amount in silver, and it shall remain theirs.
20 If the person does not redeem the field and sells it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
21 When the field is released in the jubilee, it shall be holy to the LORD, like a field devoted to destruction; its ownership shall belong to the priest.
22 If someone consecrates to the LORD a field that was bought, which is not part of their own property,
23 the priest shall calculate its assessed value for that person up to the year of jubilee, and on that day the person shall pay the assessed value as something holy to the LORD.’”
24 “‘In the year of jubilee, the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, to the one who owns the land as property.
25 Every valuation shall be made according to the sanctuary shekel; the shekel shall weigh twenty gerahs.
26 But no one shall consecrate the firstborn of the animals, since it already belongs to the LORD as a firstborn; whether an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the LORD.
27 If it is an unclean animal, it may be redeemed at its assessed value, with a fifth added; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its assessed value.
28 But nothing that someone devotes to destruction for the LORD, from all that person owns—whether a person, an animal, or a field belonging to their property—may be sold or redeemed. Everything devoted to destruction is most holy to the LORD.
29 No person devoted to destruction may be redeemed; that person must surely be put to death.
30 Every tenth of the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
31 If someone wants to redeem any part of their tithe, a fifth shall be added to it.
32 Every tenth animal of the herd or flock, every one that passes under the staff, shall be holy to the LORD.
33 No one shall inspect whether it is good or bad, or make an exchange for it; if anyone does make an exchange, both it and its substitute shall be holy and may not be redeemed.’”
34 These are the commandments that the LORD gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
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