New American Standard Bible 2020
Leviticus 27:14-34
14‘Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest shall assess it 1as 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 2proportionate to the seed needed for it: a 3homer 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 4him 5proportionate 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, 6but has sold the field to another person, it may no longer be redeemed; 21and when it 7reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the Lord, like a field banned from secular use; 8it 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 9him 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 10the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
26‘11However, 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 12redeem 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, 1314anything which someone sets apart to the Lord for 15destruction 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 16one who may have been 17set apart among mankind shall be ransomed; he must be put to death.
30‘Now 18all 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 19passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. 3320He 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.’”
3421These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Notes
- 1. Leviticus 27:14 Lit between good ↩
- 2. Leviticus 27:16 Lit according to its seed ↩
- 3. Leviticus 27:16 About 7.7 cubic feet or 0.22 cubic meters ↩
- 4. Leviticus 27:18 Or it ↩
- 5. Leviticus 27:18 Lit according to the years ↩
- 6. Leviticus 27:20 Or if he ↩
- 7. Leviticus 27:21 Lit goes out ↩
- 8. Leviticus 27:21 Num 18:14; Ezek 44:29 ↩
- 9. Leviticus 27:23 Or it ↩
- 10. Leviticus 27:25 Ex 30:13; Lev 27:3; Num 3:47; 18:16 ↩
- 11. Leviticus 27:26 Ex 13:2 ↩
- 12. Leviticus 27:27 Or ransom ↩
- 13. Leviticus 27:28 Lit anything banned ↩
- 14. Leviticus 27:28 Num 18:14; Josh 6:17-19 ↩
- 15. Leviticus 27:28 I.e., as an offering ↩
- 16. Leviticus 27:29 Lit one devoted; or banned ↩
- 17. Leviticus 27:29 Lit put under the ban ↩
- 18. Leviticus 27:30 Gen 28:22; 2 Chr 31:5; Neh 13:12 ↩
- 19. Leviticus 27:32 Jer 33:13; Ezek 20:37 ↩
- 20. Leviticus 27:33 Lev 27:10 ↩
- 21. Leviticus 27:34 Lev 26:46; Deut 4:5 ↩
Commentaries on Leviticus 27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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