rsv Leviticus:27:2-34 SEEK
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Say to the people of Israel ,
When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation ,
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then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver ,
according to the shekel of the sanctuary .
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If the person is a female ,
your valuation shall be thirty shekels .
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If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old ,
your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels ,
and for a female ten shekels .
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If the person is from a month old up to five years old ,
your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver ,
and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver .
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And if the person is sixty years old and upward ,
then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels ,
and for a female ten shekels .
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And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation ,
then he shall bring the person before the priest ,
and the priest shall value him ;
according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him .
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If it is an animal such as men offer as an offering to the LORD ,
all of such that any man gives to the LORD is holy .
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He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange it ,
a good for a bad ,
or a bad for a good ;
and if he makes any exchange of beast for beast ,
then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy .
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And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered as an offering to the LORD ,
then the man shall bring the animal before the priest ,
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and the priest shall value it as either good or bad ;
as you ,
the priest ,
value it ,
so it shall be .
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But if he wishes to redeem it ,
he shall add a fifth to the valuation .
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When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD ,
the priest shall value it as either good or bad ;
as the priest values it ,
so it shall stand .
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And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his house ,
he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it ,
and it shall be his .
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If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land which is his by inheritance ,
then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it ;
a sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver .
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If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee ,
it shall stand at your full valuation ;
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but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee ,
then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee ,
and a deduction shall be made from your valuation .
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And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it ,
then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it ,
and it shall remain his .
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But if he does not wish to redeem the field ,
or if he has sold the field to another man ,
it shall not be redeemed any more ;
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but the field ,
when it is released in the jubilee ,
shall be holy to the LORD ,
as a field that has been devoted ;
the priest shall be in possession of it .
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If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought ,
which is not a part of his possession by inheritance ,
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then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee ,
and the man shall give the amount of the valuation on that day as a holy thing to the LORD .
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In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought ,
to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance .
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Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary :
twenty gerahs shall make a shekel .
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But a firstling of animals ,
which as a firstling belongs to the LORD ,
no man may dedicate ;
whether ox or sheep ,
it is the LORD '
s .
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And if it is an unclean animal ,
then he shall buy it back at your valuation ,
and add a fifth to it ;
or ,
if it is not redeemed ,
it shall be sold at your valuation .
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But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD ,
of anything that he has ,
whether of man or beast ,
or of his inherited field ,
shall be sold or redeemed ;
every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD .
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No one devoted ,
who is to be utterly destroyed from among men ,
shall be ransomed ;
he shall be put to death .
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All the tithe of the land ,
whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees ,
is the LORD '
s ;
it is holy to the LORD .
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If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe ,
he shall add a fifth to it .
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And all the tithe of herds and flocks ,
every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman '
s staff ,
shall be holy to the LORD .
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A man shall not inquire whether it is good or bad ,
neither shall he exchange it ;
and if he exchanges it ,
then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy ;
it shall not be redeemed ."
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These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai .