Leviticus:27

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* Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying , * "Speak to the children of Israel , and say to them , 'When a man makes a vow , the persons shall be for Yahweh by your valuation . * Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old , even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver , after the shekel of the sanctuary . * If it is a female , then your valuation shall be thirty shekels . * If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old , then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels , and for a female ten shekels . * If the person is from a month old even to five years old , then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver , and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver . * If the person is from sixty years old and upward ; if it is a male , then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels , and for a female ten shekels . * But if he is poorer than your valuation , then he shall be set before the priest , and the priest shall value him ; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him . * "'If it is an animal , of which men offer an offering to Yahweh , all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy . * He shall not alter it , nor change it , a good for a bad , or a bad for a good : and if he shall at all change animal for animal , then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy . * If it is any unclean animal , of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh , then he shall set the animal before the priest ; * and the priest shall value it , whether it is good or bad . As you the priest values it , so shall it be . * But if he will indeed redeem it , then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation . * "'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh , then the priest shall evaluate it , whether it is good or bad : as the priest shall evaluate it , so shall it stand . * If he who dedicates it will redeem his house , then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it , and it shall be his . * "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession , then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it : the sowing of a homer {1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels } of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver . * If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee , according to your valuation it shall stand . * But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee , then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee ; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation . * If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it , then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it , and it shall remain his . * If he will not redeem the field , or if he has sold the field to another man , it shall not be redeemed any more ; * but the field , when it goes out in the Jubilee , shall be holy to Yahweh , as a field devoted ; it shall be owned by the priests . * "'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought , which is not of the field of his possession , * then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee ; and he shall give your valuation on that day , as a holy thing to Yahweh . * In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought , even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs . * All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary : twenty gerahs to the shekel . * "'Only the firstborn among animals , which is made a firstborn to Yahweh , no man may dedicate it ; whether an ox or sheep , it is Yahweh 's . * If it is an unclean animal , then he shall buy it back according to your valuation , and shall add to it the fifth part of it : or if it isn 't redeemed , then it shall be sold according to your valuation . * "'Notwithstanding , no devoted thing , that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has , whether of man or animal , or of the field of his possession , shall be sold or redeemed : every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh . * "'No one devoted , who shall be devoted from among men , shall be ransomed ; he shall surely be put to death . * "'All the tithe of the land , whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees , is Yahweh 's . It is holy to Yahweh . * If a man redeems anything of his tithe , he shall add a fifth part to it . * All the tithe of the herds or the flocks , whatever passes under the rod , the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh . * He shall not search whether it is good or bad , neither shall he change it : and if he changes it at all , then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy . It shall not be redeemed .'" * These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai .

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