27Verse 1Then the LORD said to Moses,Verse 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,Verse 3if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver,+according to the sanctuary shekel.+Verse 4Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.+Verse 5And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels,+and for the female ten shekels.+Verse 6Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver,+and for the female three shekels of silver.+Verse 7And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels+for the male and ten shekels for the female.Verse 8But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person+before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.Verse 9If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.Verse 10He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.Verse 11But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.Verse 12The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.Verse 13If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.Verse 14Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.Verse 15But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.Verse 16If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.+Verse 17If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.Verse 18But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.Verse 19And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.Verse 20If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.Verse 21When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.Verse 22Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,Verse 23then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.Verse 24In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.Verse 25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.+Verse 26But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.Verse 27But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.Verse 28Nothing that a man sets apart+to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.Verse 29No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
Instruction on Tithes
Verse 30Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.Verse 31If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.Verse 32Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.Verse 33He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”Verse 34These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.