Leviticus 27

Rules about Valuations

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons, ‡ Num 6:21Sa 1:111Sa 1:28Deu 23:21-23Jdg 11:30-31Jdg 11:39Ecc 5:4-5Gen 28:20-22 +23 if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, ¹ according to the sanctuary shekel. ² ‡ Exo 30:13Lev 27:25Num 18:162Ki 12:4Lev 27:14Lev 5:15Lev 6:6Num 3:47 4 Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. ³ ‡ Mat 26:15Mat 27:9-10Zec 11:12-13 5 And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, ⁴ and for the female ten shekels. ⁵

6 Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, ⁶ and for the female three shekels of silver. ⁷ ‡ Num 18:14-16Num 3:40-43 7 And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels ⁸for the male and ten shekels for the female. ‡ Psa 90:10 8 But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person ⁹ before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford. ‡ Lev 14:21-22Mrk 14:72Co 8:12Jer 5:7Lev 12:8Lev 5:11Lev 5:7Luk 21:1-4

9 If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy. 10 He 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. ‡ Jas 1:8Lev 27:15-33

11 But 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. ‡ Deu 23:18Mal 1:14 12 The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set. 13 If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value. ‡ Lev 27:15Lev 27:19Lev 22:14Lev 27:10Lev 5:16Lev 6:4-5

14 Now 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. ‡ Lev 25:29-31Lev 27:21Num 18:14Psa 101:2-7 15 But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him. ‡ Lev 27:13

16 If 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. ¹⁰ ‡ Act 4:34-37Act 5:4Ezk 45:11-14Hos 3:2Isa 5:10 17 If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.

18 But 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. ‡ Lev 25:15-16Lev 25:27Lev 25:51-52 19 And 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. ‡ Lev 27:13

20 If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed. 21 When 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. ‡ Ezk 44:29Num 18:14Lev 25:10Lev 25:28Lev 25:31Ezr 10:8Jos 6:17Lev 27:28-29 +1

22 Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property, ‡ Lev 25:10Lev 25:25 23 then 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. ‡ Lev 27:18Lev 27:12 24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land. ‡ Lev 25:28Lev 27:20 25 Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel. ¹¹ ‡ Exo 30:13Num 18:16Num 3:47Ezk 45:12Lev 27:3

26 But 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. ‡ Exo 13:2Deu 15:19Exo 13:12-13Exo 22:30Num 18:17 27 But 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. ‡ Lev 27:11

28 Nothing that a man sets apart ¹²to 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. ‡ Jos 6:17-19Deu 20:16-17Exo 22:20Lev 27:21Deu 25:191Sa 15:18Act 23:12-14Deu 13:15-16 +20

29 No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death. ‡ 1Sa 15:18-23Num 21:2-3

Instruction on Tithes

(Deuteronomy 14:22–29; Deuteronomy 26:1–15; Nehemiah 13:10–14)

30 Thus 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. ‡ Mat 23:23Gen 28:22Neh 10:37-38Neh 13:122Ch 31:122Ch 31:5-6Gen 14:20Luk 18:12 +831 If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.

32 Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD. ‡ Jer 33:13Ezk 20:37Mic 7:14 33 He 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.’” ‡ Lev 27:10

34 These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai. ‡ Lev 26:46Num 1:1Deu 4:45Deu 4:5Gal 4:24-25Heb 12:18-25Jhn 1:17