ויקרא 27
| וידבר יהוה אל משה לאמר׃ | 1 |
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
| דבר אל בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם איש כי יפלא נדר בערכך נפשת ליהוה׃ | 2 |
“Tell the Israeli people [that this is what I am saying to them]: If anyone solemnly promises to dedicate another person to [work solely] for me, the person who is dedicated to me is allowed to be free from having to do that by someone paying [to the priest] a fixed amount of money. The money that is given must be calculated by comparing it with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.
| והיה ערכך הזכר מבן עשרים שנה ועד בן ששים שנה והיה ערכך חמשים שקל כסף בשקל הקדש׃ | 3 |
[These are the amounts that must be paid]: 50 pieces of silver for men who are between 20 and 60 years old,
| ואם נקבה הוא והיה ערכך שלשים שקל׃ | 4 |
30 pieces of silver for adult women [who are between 20 and 60 years old],
| ואם מבן חמש שנים ועד בן עשרים שנה והיה ערכך הזכר עשרים שקלים ולנקבה עשרת שקלים׃ | 5 |
20 pieces of silver for young men who are between five and 20 years old, ten pieces of silver for young women who are between five and 20 years old,
| ואם מבן חדש ועד בן חמש שנים והיה ערכך הזכר חמשה שקלים כסף ולנקבה ערכך שלשת שקלים כסף׃ | 6 |
five pieces of silver for boys who are between one month and five years old, three pieces of silver for girls who are between one month and five years old,
| ואם מבן ששים שנה ומעלה אם זכר והיה ערכך חמשה עשר שקל ולנקבה עשרה שקלים׃ | 7 |
15 pieces of silver for men who are more than 60 years old, ten pieces of silver for women who are more than 60 years old.
| ואם מך הוא מערכך והעמידו לפני הכהן והעריך אתו הכהן על פי אשר תשיג יד הנדר יעריכנו הכהן׃ | 8 |
‘If anyone who has made such a solemn promise is very poor and unable to pay, to free that person from doing what he had promised, he must take that person to the priest. The priest will set the price [for freeing him] to be what the person who made that solemn promise is able to pay.
| ואם בהמה אשר יקריבו ממנה קרבן ליהוה כל אשר יתן ממנו ליהוה יהיה קדש׃ | 9 |
‘If someone solemnly promises to give an animal that is acceptable to be an offering to me, that animal becomes sacred [and belongs to me].
| לא יחליפנו ולא ימיר אתו טוב ברע או רע בטוב ואם המר ימיר בהמה בבהמה והיה הוא ותמורתו יהיה קדש׃ | 10 |
The person who promised to give it must not give another animal instead of the one that he promised; he must not substitute a bad animal for a good one or even a better one than the one offered. If he would substitute one animal for the other, both animals would belong to me.
| ואם כל בהמה טמאה אשר לא יקריבו ממנה קרבן ליהוה והעמיד את הבהמה לפני הכהן׃ | 11 |
If the animal that he wishes to dedicate to me is a kind that is unacceptable to be an offering to me, he must take that animal to the priest.
| והעריך הכהן אתה בין טוב ובין רע כערכך הכהן כן יהיה׃ | 12 |
The priest will then decide what its value is, according to the animal’s good and bad points. Whatever value the priests sets will be the value of the animal, [and that is the price that the priest must pay for the animal].
| ואם גאל יגאלנה ויסף חמישתו על ערכך׃ | 13 |
If the man who gave the animal later decides that he wants to buy it back, he must pay [to the priest] that price plus an additional 20 percent.
| ואיש כי יקדש את ביתו קדש ליהוה והעריכו הכהן בין טוב ובין רע כאשר יעריך אתו הכהן כן יקום׃ | 14 |
‘[Similarly], if someone dedicates his house to be a sacred gift to belong to me, the priest will decide how much it is worth, which will depend on whether the house is in good condition. Whatever the priest says that it is worth, that will be its value [and that is the price that the priest must pay for it].
| ואם המקדיש יגאל את ביתו ויסף חמישית כסף ערכך עליו והיה לו׃ | 15 |
If the man who dedicated his house to me later wants to buy it back, he must pay that price plus an additional 20 percent, and then the house will belong to him again.
| ואם משדה אחזתו יקדיש איש ליהוה והיה ערכך לפי זרעו זרע חמר שערים בחמשים שקל כסף׃ | 16 |
‘If someone dedicates to me some of the property that belongs to him and his family, its value will be determined by the number of bushels of seed that will be needed to plant seeds on that land: Its value will be ten pieces of silver for each bushel of seed.
| אם משנת היבל יקדיש שדהו כערכך יקום׃ | 17 |
If he dedicates the land during the Year of Celebration, its full value will be that amount.
| ואם אחר היבל יקדיש שדהו וחשב לו הכהן את הכסף על פי השנים הנותרת עד שנת היבל ונגרע מערכך׃ | 18 |
But if he dedicates the field after the Year of Celebration, the priest will count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration, and if there are not many years that remain, the price will be much lower [than the full price].
| ואם גאל יגאל את השדה המקדיש אתו ויסף חמשית כסף ערכך עליו וקם לו׃ | 19 |
If the person who dedicated the field later wants to buy it back, he must pay [to the priest] the price that the priest says it is worth, plus an added one-fifth, and then the field will belong to that man again.
| ואם לא יגאל את השדה ואם מכר את השדה לאיש אחר לא יגאל עוד׃ | 20 |
However, if he does not buy it back, or if it has been sold (OR, the priest has sold it) to someone else, that person will never be permitted to buy it back again.
| והיה השדה בצאתו ביבל קדש ליהוה כשדה החרם לכהן תהיה אחזתו׃ | 21 |
In the Year of Celebration, it will become sacred again, and it will be given to the priest.
| ואם את שדה מקנתו אשר לא משדה אחזתו יקדיש ליהוה׃ | 22 |
‘If someone dedicates to me some land that he has bought, land which is not part of the land that his family has always owned,
| וחשב לו הכהן את מכסת הערכך עד שנת היבל ונתן את הערכך ביום ההוא קדש ליהוה׃ | 23 |
the priest will count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration to determine how much it is worth, and the man must pay that amount to the priest on that day, [and then that land will belong to that man again].
| בשנת היובל ישוב השדה לאשר קנהו מאתו לאשר לו אחזת הארץ׃ | 24 |
But in the Year of Celebration, the land will again be owned by the person from whom he bought it, the person whose family had always owned that land.
| וכל ערכך יהיה בשקל הקדש עשרים גרה יהיה השקל׃ | 25 |
All the silver that is paid must be compared with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.
| אך בכור אשר יבכר ליהוה בבהמה לא יקדיש איש אתו אם שור אם שה ליהוה הוא׃ | 26 |
‘No one is permitted to dedicate to me the firstborn of any cow or sheep, because the firstborn already belongs to me [DOU].
| ואם בבהמה הטמאה ופדה בערכך ויסף חמשתו עליו ואם לא יגאל ונמכר בערכך׃ | 27 |
If someone gives to me a kind of animal that is not acceptable to me, that person may later buy it back by paying what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent of its value. If he does not buy it back, it must be sold (OR, the priest must sell it) for its standard price.
| אך כל חרם אשר יחרם איש ליהוה מכל אשר לו מאדם ובהמה ומשדה אחזתו לא ימכר ולא יגאל כל חרם קדש קדשים הוא ליהוה׃ | 28 |
‘However, no slave or animal or family land that someone owns can be sold or bought back after it has been dedicated to me [and no price has been paid for it]. That kind of gift belongs to me permanently/forever.
| כל חרם אשר יחרם מן האדם לא יפדה מות יומת׃ | 29 |
‘No person who has [done something that I consider to be very wicked] is permitted to be freed [from being punished]; that person must surely be executed.
| וכל מעשר הארץ מזרע הארץ מפרי העץ ליהוה הוא קדש ליהוה׃ | 30 |
‘One tenth of all the crops and grain or fruit that is produced on anyone’s land is sacred and belongs to me.
| ואם גאל יגאל איש ממעשרו חמשיתו יסף עליו׃ | 31 |
If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay [to the priest] what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent.
| וכל מעשר בקר וצאן כל אשר יעבר תחת השבט העשירי יהיה קדש ליהוה׃ | 32 |
One of every ten domestic animals belongs to me. When a shepherd counts his animals [MTY] [to decide which ones he will give to me], he must mark every tenth one as belonging to me.
| לא יבקר בין טוב לרע ולא ימירנו ואם המר ימירנו והיה הוא ותמורתו יהיה קדש לא יגאל׃ | 33 |
When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones for himself or leave the bad ones, or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he substitutes one animal for another, both animals will belong to me, and he will not be permitted to buy them back (OR, the shepherd cannot buy them back).’”
| אלה המצות אשר צוה יהוה את משה אל בני ישראל בהר סיני׃ | 34 |
Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain [to tell to the people].
