Leviticus 27
Leviticus 27:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,
Leviticus 27:2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, if anyone makes a special solemn pledge to Yahveh involving the valuation of throats,
Leviticus 27:3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old will be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27:4 If the person is a female, the valuation will be thirty shekels.
Leviticus 27:5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation will be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation will be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation will be three shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:7 And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male will be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:8 And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he will be made to stand at the face of the priest, and the priest will value him; the priest will value him according to what the maker of the solemn pledge can afford.
Leviticus 27:9 “If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to Yahveh, all of it that he gives to Yahveh is sacred.
Leviticus 27:10 He will not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute will be sacred.
Leviticus 27:11 And if it is any contaminated animal that may not be offered as an offering to Yahveh, then he will stand the animal at the face of the priest,
Leviticus 27:12 and the priest will value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it will be.
Leviticus 27:13 But if he wishes to redeem it, he will add a fifth to the valuation.
Leviticus 27:14 “When a man dedicates his house as a sacred gift to Yahveh, the priest will value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it will stand.
Leviticus 27:15 And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he will add a fifth to the valuation price, and it will be his.
Leviticus 27:16 “If a man dedicates to Yahveh part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation will be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:17 If he dedicates his field from the year of liberation, the valuation will stand,
Leviticus 27:18 but if he dedicates his field after the liberation, then the priest will figure out the price according to the years that remain until the year of liberation, and a deduction will be made from the valuation.
Leviticus 27:19 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he will add a fifth to its valuation price, and it will remain his.
Leviticus 27:20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it will not be redeemed anymore.
Leviticus 27:21 But the field, when it is released in the liberation, will be a sacred gift to Yahveh, like a field that has been devoted. The priest will be in possession of it.
Leviticus 27:22 If he dedicates to Yahveh a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,
Leviticus 27:23 then the priest will figure out the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of liberation, and the man will give the valuation on that day as a sacred gift to Yahveh.
Leviticus 27:24 In the year of liberation the field will return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
Leviticus 27:25 Every valuation will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs will make a shekel.
Leviticus 27:26 “But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to Yahveh, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is Yahveh’s.
Leviticus 27:27 And if it is a contaminated animal, then he will buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it will be sold at the valuation.
Leviticus 27:28 “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to Yahveh, of anything that he has, whether human or animal, or of his inherited field, will be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most sacred to Yahveh.
Leviticus 27:29 No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from humanity, will be ransomed; he will surely be put to death.
Leviticus 27:30 “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahveh’s; it is sacred to Yahveh.
Leviticus 27:31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he will add a fifth to it.
Leviticus 27:32 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, will be sacred to Yahveh.
Leviticus 27:33 One will not differentiate between good or bad, neither will he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute will be sacred; it will not be redeemed.”
Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments that Yahveh commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Leviticus 27 quotes:
“Sometimes vows are made in the heat of the moment. When the crisis is over the vow may seem foolish and unnecessary and a person may be tempted to forget it. Part of the purpose of Leviticus 27 was to discourage such rash vows by fixing a very high price on freeing oneself from a vow and exacting stiff penalties on those who changed their minds. For instance, if a man substituted an animal different from the one promised, he forfeited both animals, or if he wished to redeem the property he had vowed he would have to pay the value of the land plus an extra twenty percent.”
Lenz, Mark J. Leviticus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1988. p. 236.
“Those of us who have been in the church life for a number of years may have become old, so we all need to have a new start. I would entreat all of us to drop all of our traditional knowledge and background from Christianity. We should just practice what the Bible teaches. To practice the biblical way, we have to begin every morning with the Lord to get ourselves revived anew (Lam. 3:22-23). We also need to devote ourselves to the Lord. In the recent winter training on Leviticus, we saw from Leviticus 27 that the Lord desires that we devote all that we are and have to Him. Devote is a stronger word than consecrate because it implies making a vow to the Lord. We should tell the Lord, “Lord, I vow to You to devote myself to You for Your biblical way.””
Lee, Witness. The Excelling Gift for the Building up of the Church. Living Stream Ministry, 1989. p. 58.
“Leviticus 27 draws attention to pledges or agreements between people. The first eight verses deal with a man pledging his services to work out a debt. Moses detailed the going rate by maintaining that any man between twenty and sixty years of age has a certain monetary value attached to his service”
Gutzke, Manford George. Plain Talk on Leviticus and Numbers. Zondervan Pub. House., 1981. p. 61.
Leviticus 27 links:
devotion and value
for the people of Israel
give carefully
giving back
how much are you worth?
rich man, poor man
set apart for destruction
two holy animals
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