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Text -- Leviticus 27:3-34 (NET)
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27:3 the conversion value of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel .
27:4 If the person is a female , the conversion value is thirty shekels .
27:5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old , the conversion value of the male is twenty shekels , and for the female ten shekels .
27:6 If the person is one month old up to five years old , the conversion value of the male is five shekels of silver , and for the female the conversion value is three shekels of silver .
27:7 If the person is from sixty years old and older , if he is a male the conversion value is fifteen shekels , and for the female ten shekels .
27:8 If he is too poor to pay the conversion value , he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value ; according to what the man who made the vow can afford , the priest will establish his conversion value .
Redemption of Vowed Animals
27:9 “‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the Lord , anything which he gives to the Lord from this kind of animal will be holy .
27:10 He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good , and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal , then both the original animal and its substitute will be holy .
27:11 If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the Lord , then he must stand the animal before the priest ,
27:12 and the priest will establish its conversion value , whether good or bad . According to the assessed conversion value of the priest , thus it will be .
27:13 If , however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, he must add one fifth to its conversion value .
Redemption of Vowed Houses
27:14 “‘If a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord , the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad . Just as the priest establishes its conversion value, thus it will stand .
27:15 If the one who consecrates it redeems his house , he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver , and it will belong to him.
Redemption of Vowed Fields
27:16 “‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property , the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver .
27:17 If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year , the conversion value will stand ,
27:18 but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee , the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year , and it will be deducted from the conversion value .
27:19 If , however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price price and it will belong to him.
27:20 If he does not redeem the field , but sells the field to someone else , he may never redeem it.
27:21 When it reverts in the jubilee , the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field ; it will become the priest’s property .
27:22 “‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased , which is not part of his own landed property ,
27:23 the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year , and he must pay the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord .
27:24 In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property .
27:25 Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel ; twenty gerahs to the shekel .
Redemption of the Firstborn
27:26 “‘Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the Lord as a firstborn among the animals ; whether it is an ox or a sheep , it belongs to the Lord .
27:27 If , however, it is among the unclean animals , he may ransom it according to its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value .
Things Permanently Dedicated to the Lord
27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord from all that belongs to him, whether from people , animals , or his landed property , must be neither sold nor redeemed ; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord .
27:29 Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed ; such a person must be put to death .
Redemption of the Tithe
27:30 “‘Any tithe of the land , from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees , belongs to the Lord ; it is holy to the Lord .
27:31 If a man redeems part of his tithe , however, he must add one fifth to it.
27:32 All the tithe of herd or flock , everything which passes under the rod , the tenth one will be holy to the Lord .
27:33 The owner must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad , and he must not exchange it. If , however, he does exchange it, both the original animal and its substitute will be holy . It must not be redeemed .’”
Final Colophon
27:34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
TITHE |
CRITICISM |
Israel |
Consecrated Things |
VOW |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
Dedication |
Redemption |
Vows |
Property |
LAW OF MOSES |
Jubilee |
INHERITANCE |
AGRARIAN LAWS |
JUBILEE YEAR |
Corban |
Land |
Firstborn |
EZEKIEL, 2 |
ANATHEMA |
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NET Notes -> Lev 27:3; Lev 27:3; Lev 27:3; Lev 27:6; Lev 27:8; Lev 27:8; Lev 27:9; Lev 27:9; Lev 27:10; Lev 27:12; Lev 27:13; Lev 27:13; Lev 27:14; Lev 27:15; Lev 27:16; Lev 27:16; Lev 27:17; Lev 27:18; Lev 27:18; Lev 27:19; Lev 27:19; Lev 27:19; Lev 27:20; Lev 27:21; Lev 27:21; Lev 27:21; Lev 27:22; Lev 27:23; Lev 27:25; Lev 27:26; Lev 27:27; Lev 27:27; Lev 27:28; Lev 27:29; Lev 27:30; Lev 27:31; Lev 27:31; Lev 27:32; Lev 27:33; Lev 27:33; Lev 27:33; Lev 27:33; Lev 27:34
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NET Notes: Lev 27:9 Heb “from it.” The masculine suffix “it” here is used for the feminine in the MT, but one medieval Hebrew ms, some mss of Smr,...
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NET Notes: Lev 27:10 Heb “it and its substitute.” The referent (the original animal offered) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: Lev 27:14 The expression “it shall stand” may be a technical term for “it shall be legally valid”; cf. NLT “assessment will be fin...
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NET Notes: Lev 27:17 Heb “from the year of the jubilee.” For the meaning of “jubilee,” see the note on Lev 25:10 above.
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NET Notes: Lev 27:19 Heb “and it shall rise to him.” See HALOT 1087 s.v. קום 7 for the rendering offered here, but see also the note on the e...
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NET Notes: Lev 27:22 Heb “his field of purchase,” which is to be distinguished from his own ancestral “landed property” (cf. v. 16 above).
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NET Notes: Lev 27:28 Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the Lord.” The Hebrew term חֵר&...
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NET Notes: Lev 27:30 On the “tithe” system in Israel, see R. E. Averbeck, NIDOTTE 2:1035-55 and esp. pp. 1041-42 on Lev 27:30-33.
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NET Notes: Lev 27:32 The tithed animal was the tenth one that passed under the shepherd’s rod or staff as they were being counted (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC]...
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