Redeeming dedicated things
The Lord said to Moses, Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value, set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel; for a female, set her value at thirty shekels; for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels; for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver; for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and of a female at ten shekels. If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford. If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord, such an animal given to the Lord becomes holy. They must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; if they should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy. If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal — one that is not acceptable as an offering to the Lord — the animal must be presented to the priest, who will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is what it will be. If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value. If anyone dedicates their house as something holy to the Lord, the priest will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it will remain. If the one who dedicates their house wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become theirs. If anyone dedicates to the Lord part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required to sow it — fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed. If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains. But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced. If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs. If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed. When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the Lord; it will become priestly property. If anyone dedicates to the Lord a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land, the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the Lord. In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was. Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel. No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord's. If it is one of the unclean animals, the owner may buy it back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If they do not redeem it, it is to be sold at its set value. But nothing that a person owns and devotes to the Lord — whether a human being or an animal or family land — may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the Lord. No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; they are to be put to death. A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord. Whoever wishes to redeem any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value to it. Every tithe of the herd and flock — every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod — will be holy to the Lord. No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed. These are the commands the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
The Lord said to Moses,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel;
And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
for a female, set her value at thirty shekels;
And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels;
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver;
And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and of a female at ten shekels.
And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord, such an animal given to the Lord becomes holy.
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
They must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; if they should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy.
He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal — one that is not acceptable as an offering to the Lord — the animal must be presented to the priest,
And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
who will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is what it will be.
And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value.
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
If anyone dedicates their house as something holy to the Lord, the priest will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it will remain.
And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
If the one who dedicates their house wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become theirs.
And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
If anyone dedicates to the Lord part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required to sow it — fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed.
And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced.
But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs.
And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed.
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the Lord; it will become priestly property.
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
If anyone dedicates to the Lord a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,
And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the Lord.
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord's.
Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD’s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD’s.
If it is one of the unclean animals, the owner may buy it back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If they do not redeem it, it is to be sold at its set value.
And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
But nothing that a person owns and devotes to the Lord — whether a human being or an animal or family land — may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the Lord.
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; they are to be put to death.
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.
Whoever wishes to redeem any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value to it.
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
Every tithe of the herd and flock — every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod — will be holy to the Lord.
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.
He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
These are the commands the Lord gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.