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Leviticus 27 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:2 - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3 - then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels[fn] of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:4 - If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:8 - And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:9 - “If the vow[fn] is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:10 - He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:11 - And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he shall stand the animal before the priest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:12 - and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:13 - But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:14 - “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:15 - And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - “If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer[fn] of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:17 - If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:18 - but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:19 - And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:20 - But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:23 - then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:25 - Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs[fn] shall make a shekel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:26 - “But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:27 - And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29 - No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction[fn] from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:30 - “Every 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:31 - If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:32 - And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:33 - One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:34 - These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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ESV Footnotes
A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Hebrew it
A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
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