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, 6 a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver. 7
1 tn Heb “the years.”
2 tn Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 358-59.
3 tn Heb “your conversion value shall be [for] the male.”
4 tn Heb “from a son of twenty years and until a son of sixty years.”
5 tn See the note on Lev 5:15.
5 tn Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”
6 tn Heb “seed of a homer of barley in fifty shekels of silver.”
7 tn Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems [finite verb] the field, the one who consecrated it.” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.
8 tn Heb “the silver of the conversion value.”
9 tn 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 end of v. 14 above (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 476, 478).