1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of
Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for
Yahweh by your valuation. 3 Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty
years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels
of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 If it is a female, then
your valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years
old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty
shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old
even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels
of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then
your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
8 But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the
priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who
vowed shall the priest value him.
9 “‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that
any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy. 10 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 animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall
be holy. 11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an
offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest; 12 and
the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest
values it, so shall it be. 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he
shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
14 “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest
shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate
it, so shall it stand. 15 If he who dedicates it will redeem his house,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it
shall be his.
16 “‘If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession,
then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a
homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he
dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it
shall stand. 18 But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the
priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to
the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.
19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add
the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.
20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another
man, it shall not be redeemed any more; 21 but the field, when it goes out
in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be
owned by the priests.
22 “‘If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not
of the field of his possession, 23 then the priest shall reckon to him the
worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your
valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh. 24 In the Year of
Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to
whom the possession of the land belongs. 25 All your valuations shall be
according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26 “‘Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to
Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh’s.
27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your
valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn’t redeemed,
then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28 “‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh
of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his
possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to
Yahweh.
29 “‘No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be
ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
30 “‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the
fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh. 31 If a man redeems
anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. 32 All the tithe
of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be
holy to Yahweh. 33 He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither
shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for
which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”
34 These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the
children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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