LeviticusChapter 27
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1Then the LORD spoke to Moses. He said, 2"Speak to the Israelites and tell them this. 'Someone may make a special promise to give the LORD the value of a person. 3If the person is a man from twenty to sixty years old, his value is fifty shekels of silver. Use the shekel weight of the holy place.a 4If the person is a woman, her value is thirty shekels. 5If the person is from five to twenty years old, the value of a male is twenty shekels. The value of a female is ten shekels. 6If the person is from one month to five years old, the value of a boy is five shekels of silver. The value of a girl is three shekels of silver. 7If the person is sixty years old or older, the value of a man is fifteen shekels. The value of a woman is ten shekels. 8But the one who made the promise may be too poor to pay that value. Then he must bring the person to the priest. The priest will set the value based on what the one who made the promise can pay. 9He may promise an animal that can be brought as an offering to the LORD. Then any animal like that given to the LORD will be holy. 10He must not replace it or trade it. He must not trade a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one. If he does trade one animal for another, then both animals will be holy. 11But he may promise an unclean animal, one that cannot be brought as an offering to the LORD. Then the animal must be brought to the priest. 12The priest will set its value, high or low. The price will be whatever the priest says. 13But if the owner wants to buy the animal back, he must add one-fifth to its value. 14A man may set apart his house as holy to the LORD. Then the priest will decide its value, whether good or bad. The price will be whatever the priest says. 15If the man who set apart his house wants to buy it back, he must add one-fifth to its value. Then it will be his again. 16A man may set apart part of his family land to the LORD. Then its value will be based on how much seed it takes to plant it. It is fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.b 17If he sets apart his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stay at the full value. 18But he may set apart his field after the Jubilee. Then the priest must figure the price by the years left until the next Year of Jubilee. So the value will be lowered. 19If the one who set apart the field wants to buy it back, he must add one-fifth to its value. Then it will be his again. 20But suppose he does not buy back the field, or he has sold it to another man. Then it can never be bought back. 21When the field is set free in the Jubilee, it will be holy. It will be like a field given fully to the LORD. It will belong to the priests. 22A man may set apart to the LORD a field he bought, a field that is not part of his family land. 23Then the priest will figure its value up to the Year of Jubilee. The man must pay that price on that same day. It is a holy gift to the LORD. 24In the Year of Jubilee the field will go back to the person it was bought from. That is the first owner of the land. 25Every value must be set by the shekel weight of the holy place. There are twenty gerahs in a shekel. 26But no one may set apart the firstborn of the livestock. The firstborn already belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD's. 27If it is an unclean animal, he may buy it back at its set value. He must add one-fifth to its value. If it is not bought back, it must be sold at its set value. 28A man may set something apart for the LORD from all he owns. It may be a person, an animal, or his family land. It can never be sold or bought back. Everything given like this is most holy to the LORD. 29No person set apart for destruction may be paid for and set free. He must be put to death. 30A tenth of everything from the land belongs to the LORD. This includes grain from the fields and fruit from the trees. It is holy to the LORD. 31If a man wants to buy back part of his tenth, he must add one-fifth to its value. 32The animals of the herd or flock pass under the shepherd's rod. Every tenth animal will be holy to the LORD. 33The owner must not check whether it is good or bad. He must not trade it for another. But if he does trade it, both animals will be holy. They cannot be bought back.'" 34These are the commands the LORD gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.