Leviticus 27

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whosoever shall vow a vow as the valuation of his soul for the Lord,

Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: The man who will have made a vow and espoused his soul to God shall give the price according to the estimation.

3 the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be his valuation shall be fifty didrachmas of silver by the standard of the sanctuary.

If it is a male from twenty years to sixty years, he shall give fifty shekels of silver, by the measure of the Sanctuary;

4 And the valuation of a female shall be thirty didrachmas.

if it is a woman, thirty.

5 And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachmas, and of a female ten didrachmas.

But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a male shall give twenty shekels; a female, ten.

6 And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachmas, and of a female, three didrachmas of silver.

From one month until the fifth year, for a male, five shekels shall be given; for a female, three.

7 And if from sixty year [old] and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachmas of silver, and if a female, ten didrachmas.

At sixty years and beyond, a male shall give fifteen shekels; a female, ten.

8 And if the man be too poor for the valuation, he shall stand before the priest; and the priest shall value him: according to what the man who has vowed can afford, the priest shall value him.

If he is poor, and he does not have the means to pay the estimation, he shall stand before the priest, and however much he will value him and see that he is able to pay, so much shall he give.

9 And if it be from the cattle that are offered as a gift to the Lord, whoever shall offer one of these to the Lord, it shall be holy.

But an animal which could be immolated to the Lord, if anyone has vowed it, shall be holy,

10 He shall not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he do at all change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall be holy.

and it cannot be exchanged, that is, neither better for worse, nor worse for better. And if he has exchanged it, both that which was exchanged, and that for which it was exchanged shall be consecrated to the Lord.

11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which none are offered as a gift to the Lord, he shall set the beast before the priest.

An unclean animal which could not be sacrificed to the Lord, if anyone has vowed it, shall be led before the priest,

12 And the priest shall make a valuation between the good and the bad, and accordingly as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.

who, judging whether it is either good or bad, shall set the price.

13 And if [the worshipper] will at all redeem it, he shall add the fifth part to its value.

But if he who offers it was willing to give, he shall add a fifth part above the estimation.

14 And whatever man shall consecrate his house as holy to the Lord, the priest shall make a valuation of it between the good and the bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand.

If a man has vowed his house, and he has sanctified it to the Lord, the priest shall examine it, whether it is good or bad, and it shall be sold according to the price which he will have established.

15 And if he that has sanctified it should redeem his house, he shall add to it the fifth part of the money of the valuation, and it shall be his.

But if he who vowed it was willing to redeem it, he shall give a fifth part beyond the estimation, and he shall have the house.

16 And if a man should hallow to the Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed, fifty didrachmas of silver for a homer of barley.

But if he has vowed a field of his possession, and has consecrated it to the Lord, the price shall be estimated according to the measure of the seed. If the land would be sown with thirty measures of barley, then let it be sold for fifty shekels of silver.

17 And if he should sanctify his field from the year of release, it shall stand according to his valuation.

If he has vowed his field beginning from the current year of Jubilee, as much as it may be worth, so shall it be estimated.

18 And if he should sanctify his field in the latter time after the release, the priest shall reckon to him the money for the remaining years, until the [next] year of release, and it shall be deducted as an equivalent from his full valuation.

But if, after some amount of time, the priest shall evaluate the money according to the number of years that remain until the Jubilee, then the price shall be reduced.

19 And if he that sanctified the field would redeem it, he shall add to its value the fifth part of the money, and it shall be his.

But if he who had vowed it, was willing to redeem his field, he shall add a fifth part of the money to the estimation, and then he shall possess it.

20 And if he do not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not after redeem it.

But if he is not willing to redeem it, then it shall be sold to any other; he who vowed it is no longer able to redeem it.

21 But the field shall be holy to the Lord after the release, as separated land; the priest shall have possession of it.

For when the day of Jubilee arrives, it shall be sanctified to the Lord. And as a possession that has been consecrated, it rightfully belongs to the priest.

22 And if he should consecrate to the Lord of a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,

If a field has been bought, and it is not from the possession of ancestors, it shall be sanctified to the Lord.

23 the priest shall reckon to him the full valuation from the year of release, and he shall pay the valuation in that day [as] holy to the Lord.

The priest shall evaluate the price according to the number of years until the Jubilee; and the one who had vowed it shall give to the Lord.

24 And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.

Then, in the Jubilee, it shall be returned to the former owner, the one who had sold it and who had held it within the lot of his possession.

25 And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli.

All estimation shall be weighed according to the shekel of the Sanctuary. A shekel has twenty obols.

26 And every firstborn which shall be produced among your cattle shall be the Lord's, and no man shall sanctify it: whether calf or sheep, it is the Lord's.

The firstborn, which belong to the Lord, no one is able to sanctify or vow, whether it is an ox, or a sheep, they are for the Lord.

27 But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.

But if it is an unclean animal, whoever offers it shall redeem it, according to your estimation, and he shall add a fifth part to the price. If he is not willing to redeem it, it shall be sold to another for whatever amount it was estimated by you.

28 And every dedicated thing which a man shall dedicate to the Lord of all that he has, whether man or beast, or of the field of his possession, he shall not sell it, nor redeem it: every devoted thing shall be most holy to the Lord.

All that is consecrated to the Lord, whether it is a man, or an animal, or a field, shall not be sold; neither is it able to be redeemed. Anything, once it has been consecrated, shall be the Holy of holies to the Lord.

29 And whatever shall be dedicated of men, shall not be ransomed, but shall be surely put to death.

And all that has been consecrated, which is offered by man, shall not be redeemed, but shall surely die.

30 Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord's, holy to the Lord.

All the tithes of the land, whether from the grain, or from the fruits of trees, are for the Lord and are sanctified to him.

31 And if a man should at all redeem his tithe, he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his.

But if anyone is willing to redeem his tithes, he shall add a fifth part to them.

32 And every tithe of oxen, and of sheep, and whatever may come in numbering under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord.

Out of all the tithes of oxen, and sheep, and goats, which cross under the rod of the shepherd, every tenth one that arrives shall be sanctified to the Lord.

33 You shall not change a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if you should at all change it, its equivalent also shall be holy, it shall not be redeemed.

It shall not be chosen by what is good or bad; neither shall it be exchanged for another. If anyone has exchanged it, both that which was exchanged, and that for which it was exchanged, shall be sanctified to the Lord and shall not be redeemed.

34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in mount Sina.

These are the precepts, which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on mount Sinai.