Leviticus 27

Rules concerning Assessments

1Again, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘1When someone makes an explicit vow, he shall be valued according to your assessment of persons belonging to the Lord. 3If your assessment is of a male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your assessment shall be fifty shekels of silver, by 2the shekel of the sanctuary. 4Or if 3the person is a female, then your assessment shall be thirty shekels. 5And if the person is from five years even to twenty years old, then your assessment for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. 6But if the person is from a month even up to five years old, then your assessment shall be 4five shekels of silver for a male, and for a female your assessment shall be three shekels of silver. 7If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels. 8But if he is poorer than your assessment, then he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; 5according to 6the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall assess him.

9‘Now if it is an animal of the kind that 7one can present as an offering to the Lord, any such animal that one gives to the Lord shall be holy. 108He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. 11If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which 9one does not present as an offering to the Lord, then he shall place the animal before the priest. 12And the priest shall assess it 10as either good or bad; as you, the priest, assess it, so shall it be. 13But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.

14‘Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest shall assess it 11as either good or bad; as the priest assesses it, so shall it stand. 15Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.

16‘Again, if someone consecrates to the Lord part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be 12proportionate to the seed needed for it: a 13homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. 17If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your assessment it shall stand. 18If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for 14him 15proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your assessment. 19If the one who consecrates it should ever want to redeem the field, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may belong to him. 20Yet if he does not redeem the field, 16but has sold the field to another person, it may no longer be redeemed; 21and when it 17reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the Lord, like a field banned from secular use; 18it shall be for the priest as his property. 22Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property, 23then the priest shall calculate for 19him the amount of your assessment up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your assessment as holy to the Lord. 24In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs. 25Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by 20the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

26‘21However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall 22redeem it according to your assessment and add to it a fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your assessment.

28‘Nevertheless, 2324anything which someone sets apart to the Lord for 25destruction out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold nor redeemed. Anything set apart for destruction is most holy to the Lord. 29No 26one who may have been 27set apart among mankind shall be ransomed; he must be put to death.

30‘Now 28all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it. 32For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever 29passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. 3330He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; yet if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”

3431These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.