Leviticus 27:2-8
27:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When a man makes a special votive offering
based on the conversion value of persons to the
Lord,
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.
Joshua 9:23-27
9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects
how the
Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified
we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.
9:25 So now we are in your power.
Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.
9:26 Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them
9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the
Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)
Joshua 9:1-2
The Gibeonites Deceive Israel
9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan – in the hill country, the lowlands, and all along the Mediterranean coast as far as Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –
9:2 they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.