Leviticus Chapter 27
Laws About Vows
1-2 Again Yahveh told Moses,
“When people make difficult vows, appraise them before Yahveh. 3 Appraise a male that’s 20 to 60 years old at 20 oz of silver 50 shekels of the sanctuary 4 and a female at 12 oz 30 shekels of silver. 5 Appraise a male that’s 5 to 20 years old at 8 oz 20 shekels and a female at 4 oz 10 shekels. 6 Appraise a male that’s a month to 5 years old at 2 oz 5 shekels of silver and a female at 1⅕ oz 3 shekels. 7 Your appraisal for males above 60 will be 6 oz 15 shekels and 4 oz 10 shekels for females. 8 But if you can’t afford that appraisal, you can have the priest appraise you according to your means. 9 If it’s an animal you can offer to Yahveh, it will be holy. 10 You won’t exchange it good for bad or vice versa. If you do exchange it, both it and the substitute become holy. 11-12 But if it’s a ceremonially unclean animal, which people don’t offer to Yahveh, the priest will appraise it. His appraisal is final. 13 But if you ever want to buy it back, add a fifth to the appraisal
Lev 27:1-13
14 “If you consecrate your house to Yahveh, the priest will appraise it. His appraisal is final. 15 But if you want to buy it back, add a fifth to the appraisal.
Lev 27:14-15
16 “If you consecrate part of your field to Yahveh, the priest’s appraisal will be in proportion to the seed for sowing it: 11 bushels 1 homer of barley at 20 oz 50 shekels of silver. 17 If you consecrate your field in relation to the Year of Jubilee, it will stand according to the priest’s appraisal. 18 If you consecrate your field after the Year of Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price in proportion to the years till the next Year of Jubilee and deduct it from its appraisal. 19 If you ever want to buy it back, add a fifth to the appraisal. 20 If you sell it, you can’t buy it back. 21 When it reverts in the Year of Jubilee, it will be holy to Yahveh like a field set apart and will belong to the priest. 22 If you consecrate a field to Yahveh that you’ve bought—not a part of your own property— 23 then the priest will calculate for it the amount of your valuation as holy to Yahveh. 24 In the Year of Jubilee, the field will go back to its original owner. 25 Appraisals will be in shekels of the sanctuary (20 gerahs per shekel).
Lev 27:16-25
26 “However, you can’t consecrate firstborn animals—ox or sheep; they already belong to Yahveh. 27 But if it’s a ceremonially unclean animal, you can buy it back according to its appraised value plus a fifth. If you don’t buy it back, the priest will sell it for its appraised value.
28 “Nevertheless, nothing devoted to Yahveh—man, animal, or field—can be sold or bought back. It’s most holy. 29 No one that’s been sentenced to death can be ransomed. Execute that person.
Lev 27:26-29
Laws About Tithes
30 “Set apart to Yahveh a tenth of the land, produce of the ground and fruit of the trees. 31 If you want to buy back part of that tenth, add a fifth to it. 32 Set apart to Yahveh every tenth member of a herd and flock. 33 Whether it’s good or bad, you don’t need to substitute for it. If you do, both it and the substitute become holy, and you can’t buy them back.”
34 Those are commandments Yahveh gave Moses for Israel at Mount Sinai.
Lev 27:30-34
Version by Virgil Warren: christir.org