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, 1 a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver. 2 27:17 If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, 3 the conversion value will stand, 27:18 but if 4 he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price 5 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, 6 he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price 7 and it will belong to him. 8 27:20 If he does not redeem the field, but sells 9 the field to someone else, he may never redeem it. 27:21 When it reverts 10 in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field; 11 it will become the priest’s property. 12
1 tn Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”
2 tn Heb “seed of a homer of barley in fifty shekels of silver.”
3 tn Heb “from the year of the jubilee.” For the meaning of “jubilee,” see the note on Lev 25:10 above.
4 tn Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.
5 tn Heb “the silver.”
6 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.
7 tn Heb “the silver of the conversion value.”
8 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).
9 tn Heb “and if he sells.”
10 tn Heb “When it goes out” (cf. Lev 25:25-34).
11 tn Heb “like the field of the permanent dedication.” The Hebrew word חֵרֶם (kherem) is a much discussed term. In this and the following verses it refers in a general way to the fact that something is permanently devoted to the
12 tn Heb “to the priest it shall be his property.”