Chapter 27
1Then AO said to Moses,
2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow involving the value of persons to AO,
3if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel.
4Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5And if [the person is] from five years of age to twenty, then your valuation shall be for the male twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.
6Now if [the person is] from one month to five years of age, then your valuation shall be for the male five shekels of silver and for the female three shekels of silver.
7And if [the person is] sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
8But if [the one making the vow] is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present [the person] before the priest [who] shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
9If [he vows] an animal that may be brought as an offering to AO, any such [animal] given to AO shall be holy.
10He must not replace it or exchange it either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
11But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to AO, the animal must be presented before the priest.
12The priest shall set its value whether high or low as the priest values it the price will be set.
13If, however, [the owner] decides to redeem [the animal], he must add a fifth to its value.
14Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to AO, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.
15But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value and it will belong to him.
16If a man consecrates a parcel of his land to AO, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
17If during the Year of Jubilee, he consecrates his field the price will stand according to your valuation.
18But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee so that your valuation will be reduced.
19And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value and it shall belong to him.
20If, however, he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
21When the field is released in the Jubilee it becomes holy to AO like a field devoted of the priests.
22Now if [a man] consecrates a field he has purchased which is not a part of his own property to AO,
23then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee and [the man] shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to AO.
24In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26But because a firstborn belongs to AO, no one may consecrate a first born of the livestock. Whether [it is] an ox or a sheep, it [is] AO’s.
27But if [it is] among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28Nothing that a man sets apart to AO from all he owns—whether a man, an animal or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted [is] most holy to AO.
29No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
30Thus any tithe from the land [whether] from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees belongs to AO; it is holy to AO.
31If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
32Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to AO.
33He must not inspect whether it is good or bad and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
34These are the commandments that AO gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.