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Redeeming What Is the Lord’s
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord said to Moses,
Laws About Vows
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord spoke to 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 to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons,
If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.
If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a 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.
And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower 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.
He shall 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 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 is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal 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 as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.
If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value.
But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
“ ‘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.
“When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall 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 the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains.
If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation 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 dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
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 who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.
If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed.
But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.
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 is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.
“ ‘If anyone dedicates to the Lord a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,
If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, which is not a part 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 calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift 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.
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
“But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s.
If it is one of the unclean animals, it may be bought back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If it is not redeemed, it is to be sold at its set value.
And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.
“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
“ ‘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.
“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord.
Whoever would redeem any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value to it.
If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth 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.
And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall 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.’ ”
One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”