Laws Concerning Gifts Dedicated to God
Leviticus 27, verse 1. Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Leviticus 27, verse 2. “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man vows a vow to the Lord equivalent to the value of his soul, Leviticus 27, verse 3. and if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, his valuation shall be fifty didrachm of silver, according to the pure measure. Leviticus 27, verse 4. But if it is of a female, your valuation shall be thirty didrachm; Leviticus 27, verse 5. and if from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation for a male shall be twenty didrachm, and for a female ten didrachm; Leviticus 27, verse 6. and if from a month old up to five years old, your valuation for a male shall be five didrachm of silver, and for a female, three didrachm of silver; Leviticus 27, verse 7. and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen didrachm, and for a female ten didrachm. Leviticus 27, verse 8. But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him. Leviticus 27, verse 9. If they bring from the cattle a gift to the Lord, whoever gives from these to the Lord, his gift shall be holy. Leviticus 27, verse 10. He shall not change it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he changes it at all, cattle for cattle, then both it and that which is changed shall be holy. Leviticus 27, verse 11. But if it is any unclean animal which they do not offer as a gift to the Lord, he shall present the animal before the priest; Leviticus 27, verse 12. and the priest shall set a value for it, whether good or bad; and as the priest values it, so it shall stand. Leviticus 27, verse 13. But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to his valuation. Leviticus 27, verse 14. And when a man sanctifies his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. Leviticus 27, verse 15. If he who sanctified his house wants to redeem it, he must add one-fifth of the silver of its valuation, and it shall be his. Leviticus 27, verse 16. Now if a man sanctifies part of the field of his possession to the Lord, then the valuation shall be according to the seed required for it: a cor of barley for fifty didrachm of silver. Leviticus 27, verse 17. If he sanctifies part of his field from the Year of Remission, according to his valuation it shall stand. Leviticus 27, verse 18. But if he sanctifies his field subsequently after the Jubilee, the priest shall reckon to him the silver due according to the years that remain till the Year of Remission, and it shall be deducted from his valuation. Leviticus 27, verse 19. And if he who sanctifies the field ever wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth of the silver to his valuation, and it shall belong to him. Leviticus 27, verse 20. But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; Leviticus 27, verse 21. but the field, when it is released in the Remission, shall be holy to the Lord, as a field set apart; it shall be the possession of the priest. Leviticus 27, verse 22. But if a man sanctifies to the Lord part of a field he bought which is not the field of his possession, Leviticus 27, verse 23. then the priest shall reckon to him its full assessment from the Year of Remission, and he shall pay its valuation on that day as holy to the Lord. Leviticus 27, verse 24. Then in the Year of Remission, the field shall return to the man from whom he bought it, to the one who owned the land as a possession. Leviticus 27, verse 25. Now all your valuations shall be according to the pure measures: twenty obols to the didrachm. Leviticus 27, verse 26. But the firstborn of your cattle, which shall be the Lord's firstborn, no man shall sanctify, whether a young calf or sheep; it is the Lord's. Leviticus 27, verse 27. Now if it is an unclean four-footed animal, he shall change it according to his valuation; and he shall add one-fifth to it, and it will be his. But if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold according to his valuation. Leviticus 27, verse 28. Nevertheless, any devoted thing a man may devote to the Lord of anything he has, man or animal, or part of the field of his possession, shall not be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. Leviticus 27, verse 29. Furthermore, people devoted to the Lord shall not be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death. Leviticus 27, verse 30. Now all the tithe of the land, whether seed of the land or fruit of the tree, is the Lord's. It is holy to the Lord. Leviticus 27, verse 31. If a man wants at all to redeem his tithe, he shall add one-fifth to it, and it will be his. Leviticus 27, verse 32. Now concerning the tithe of the oxen or the sheep, of whatever passes in the numbering under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. Leviticus 27, verse 33. You shall not change good for bad; but if he changes it at all, both it and that which is changed shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.’” Leviticus 27, verse 34. These are the commandments the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.