Levítico 27

¹ Moreouer the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

² Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make aAs of his son or daughter.singular vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD byWho art the priest.thy estimation.

³ And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fiftyRead the value of the shekel in (Exo_30:13).shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

⁴ But if it be a female, then thy valuation shal be thirtie shekels.

⁵ And from fiue yere old to twentie yere olde thy valuation shall be for the male twentie shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

⁶ And if [it be] from aHe speaks of those vows by which the fathers dedicated their children to God who were not of such force; but they might be redeemed from them.month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver.

⁷ And from sixty yeere olde and aboue, if he be a male, then thy price shalbe fifteene shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

⁸ But if he be poorerIf he is not able to pay according to your estimate.than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

⁹ And if [it be] aWhich is clean, (Lev_11:2).beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

¹⁰ 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 beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall beThat is, consecrate to the Lord.holy.

¹¹ And if it be any vncleane beast, of which men do not offer a sacrifice vnto the Lorde, hee shall then present the beast before the Priest.

¹² And the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: and as thou valuest it, which art the Priest, so shall it bee.

¹³ But if he will bye it againe, then hee shall giue the fift part of it more, aboue thy valuation.

¹⁴ Also whe a man shall dedicate his house to be holy vnto the Lorde, then the Priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad, and as ye Priest shall prise it, so shall the value be.

¹⁵ But if he that sanctified it, will redeeme his house, then hee shall giue thereto the fift part of money more then thy estimation, & it shalbe his.

¹⁶ And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: anHomer is a measure containing ten ephahs, read of an ephah in (Exo_16:16, Exo_16:36).homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.

¹⁷ If he dedicate his field immediately from the yeere of Iubile, it shall bee worth as thou doest esteeme it.

¹⁸ But if hee dedicate his fielde after the Iubile, then the Priest shall recken him the money according to ye yeeres that remaine vnto the yere of Iubile, and it shalbe abated by thy estimation.

¹⁹ And if he that dedicateth it, will redeeme the fielde, then he shall put the fift parte of the price, that thou esteemedst it at, thereunto, and it shall remaine his.

²⁰ And if he will not redeem the field, or if he haveFor their own necessity or godly uses.sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

²¹ But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall beThat is, who dedicate to the Lord with a curse to him that turns it to his private use, (Num_21:2; Deu_13:15; Jos_9:17).holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.

²² If a man also dedicate vnto ye Lord a fielde which he hath bought, which is not of the groud of his inheritance,

²³ Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he shall giveThe priests evaluation.thine estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD.

²⁴ But in the yeere of Iubile, the fielde shall returne vnto him, of whome it was bought: to him, I say, whose inheritance the land was.

²⁵ And all thy valuation shall bee according to the shekel of the Sanctuarie: a shekel conteyneth twenty gerahs.

²⁶ Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it be] ox, or sheep: it [is] theIt was the Lord's already.LORD'S.

²⁷ But if it be an vncleane beast, then he shall redeeme it by thy valuation, and giue the fift part more thereto: & if it be not redeemed, then it shalbe solde, according to thy estimation.

²⁸ Notwithstanding, nothing separate from the common vse that a man doeth separate vnto the Lord of all that he hath (whether it bee man or beast, or lande of his inheritance) may be solde nor redeemed: for euery thing separate from the common vse is most holy vnto the Lorde.

²⁹ None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; [but] shall surely beIt shall remain without redemption.put to death.

³⁰ Also all the tithe of the lande both of the seede of the ground, and of the fruite of the trees is the Lords: it is holy to the Lorde.

³¹ And if a man will at all redeem [ought] of his tithes, he shall add thereto theBesides the value of the thing itself.fifth [part] thereof.

³² And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, [even] of whatsoever passeth under theAll that which is numbered: that is, every tenth as he falls by tale without exception or respect.rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.

³³ He shal not looke if it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: els if he change it, both it, and that it was changed withall, shalbe holy, and it shall not be redeemed.

³⁴ These are the commaundements which the Lord commaunded by Moses vnto the children of Israel in mount Sinai.