Leviticus
Chapter 27
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses:
2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When a man makes a special vow, by your assessment of persons, to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.,
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Yafli neder is to make a special vow, a vow set out as extraordinary. Be-erkekha is by your assessment, the same phrase as in the guilt payment. The shekel of the holy place is not converted.
3your assessment of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty Weights of silver used as money. of silver, by the A weight of silver used as money. of the holy place.
4If it is a female, your assessment shall be thirty Weights of silver used as money..
5If from five years old up to twenty years old, your assessment of the male shall be twenty Weights of silver used as money., and for the female ten Weights of silver used as money..
6If from a month old up to five years old, your assessment of the male shall be five Weights of silver used as money. of silver, and your assessment of the female three Weights of silver used as money. of silver.
7If from sixty years old and upward, if a male, your assessment shall be fifteen Weights of silver used as money., and for the female ten Weights of silver used as money..
8If he is too poor for your assessment, he shall be stood before the priest, and the priest shall assess him. By what the hand of the one who vowed can reach, the priest shall assess him.
9If it is an animal from which they bring a A gift brought close to God. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., anything of it that one gives to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. shall be holy.
10He shall not exchange it and he shall not substitute it, a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one. If he does substitute animal for animal, it and its substitute shall be holy.
11If it is any unclean animal, from which they do not bring a A gift brought close to God. to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., he shall stand the animal before the priest.
12The priest shall assess it, between good and bad. As the priest assesses it, so it shall be.
13If he does To buy a person, an animal, or land back. it, he shall add its fifth to your assessment.
14When a man sets his house apart as holy to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the priest shall assess it, between good and bad. As the priest assesses it, so it shall stand.
15If the one who set it apart redeems his house, he shall add a fifth of the silver of your assessment to it, and it shall be his.
16If a man sets apart some of the field of his holding to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., your assessment shall be according to its seed: a A very large measure for grain. of barley seed at fifty Weights of silver used as money. of silver.
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A homer is a dry measure. It is not converted. The price is fifty shekels of silver for that seed of barley.
17If he sets his field apart from the year of The fiftieth year, when land goes back to the family that held it., it shall stand according to your assessment.
18If he sets his field apart after the The fiftieth year, when land goes back to the family that held it., the priest shall count the silver for him according to the years that remain until the year of The fiftieth year, when land goes back to the family that held it., and it shall be deducted from your assessment.
19If the one who set it apart does To buy a person, an animal, or land back. the field, he shall add a fifth of the silver of your assessment to it, and it shall stand as his.
20If he does not To buy a person, an animal, or land back. the field, and if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be Bought back. any more.
21When the field goes out in the The fiftieth year, when land goes back to the family that held it., it shall be holy to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., like a field of the devoted thing. It shall become the priest’s holding.
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Cherem is a devoted thing, set apart so that it is not bought back. A field that falls this way becomes the priest’s holding.
22If he sets apart to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. a field of his purchase, which is not from the field of his holding,
23the priest shall count for him the amount of your assessment until the year of The fiftieth year, when land goes back to the family that held it., and he shall give your assessment on that day, holy to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
24In the year of The fiftieth year, when land goes back to the family that held it. the field shall return to the one he bought it from, to the one whose holding of land it is.
25Every assessment of yours shall be by the A weight of silver used as money. of the holy place. The A weight of silver used as money. shall be twenty Very small weights. Twenty gerahs make one shekel..
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The shekel and the gerah are not converted. Twenty gerahs make the shekel of the holy place.
26However, a firstborn that is born first to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. among animals, no man shall set it apart. Whether ox or sheep, it is God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s.
27If it is among the unclean animals, he shall buy it back by your assessment and add its fifth to it. If it is not Bought back., it shall be sold by your assessment.
28However, every devoted thing that a man devotes to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., from anything that is his, from person or animal or from the field of his holding, shall not be sold and shall not be Bought back.. Every devoted thing is a most holy thing to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
29Every devoted thing that is devoted from humankind shall not be bought back. He shall be put to death.
30Every tithe of the land, from the seed of the land, from the fruit of the tree, is God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s. It is holy to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
31If a man does To buy a person, an animal, or land back. any of his tithe, he shall add its fifth to it.
32Every tithe of the herd and of the flock, everything that passes under the staff, the tenth shall be holy to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
33He shall not search between good and bad, and he shall not substitute it. If he does substitute it, it and its substitute shall be holy. It shall not be Bought back..
34These are the commands that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.