Leviticus · 34 verses
Leviticus 27
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The tenth animal to pass beneath the shepherd’s rod becomes holy by counting alone: no inspection of its quality, and any attempted exchange makes both animals holy.
The price of a personvv. 1–8
The LORD gives Moses a valuation table for vows involving people. It runs from one month old to sixty years and beyond, with different sums for males and females—a remarkably tidy ledger for the untidy business of human life. Poverty does not cancel the vow: the priest sets a value according to what the person making it can afford.
Animals, houses, and fieldsvv. 9–25
Animals, houses, and fields may all be consecrated, though each arrives with its own little complication. An acceptable offering cannot be swapped without making both animals holy; an unclean animal may be valued and redeemed with a fifth added. A house is priced by the priest, while a field is measured against the Jubilee, so that land donated near the Jubilee is worth less. A purchased field returns to its original owner at the Jubilee, whereas an unredeemed inherited field becomes the priests’ property when released.
Already the LORD’svv. 26–34
A firstborn animal cannot be consecrated because it already belongs to the LORD; there is no need to donate what is already His. Things devoted entirely to the LORD cannot be sold or redeemed, and a person set apart for destruction is not ransomed. Then comes the tithe: produce belongs to the LORD, and every tenth herd or flock animal becomes holy by position in the count. The shepherd may not pause to admire the handsome one or avoid the shabby one; should he substitute, both are holy and neither can be redeemed. The instructions end where they began, with the LORD, Moses, Israel, and Mount Sinai.
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Lev 27:2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
Lev 27:3if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
Lev 27:4Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Lev 27:5And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Lev 27:6Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
Lev 27:7And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
Lev 27:8But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
Lev 27:9If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.
Lev 27:10He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
Lev 27:11But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
Lev 27:12The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.
Lev 27:13If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
Lev 27:14Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.
Lev 27:15But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.
Lev 27:16If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
Lev 27:17If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.
Lev 27:18But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.
Lev 27:19And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.
Lev 27:20If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
Lev 27:21When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
Lev 27:22Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,
Lev 27:23then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.
Lev 27:24In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
Lev 27:25Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Lev 27:26But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
Lev 27:27But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
Lev 27:28Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
Lev 27:29No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
Lev 27:30Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
Lev 27:31If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
Lev 27:32Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
Lev 27:33He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
Lev 27:34These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
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- 21Ezekiel 44:29They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.
- 26Exodus 13:2“Consecrate to Me every firstborn male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs to Me, both of man and beast.”
- 28Joshua 6:17–19Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- 30Matthew 23:23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
- 3Exodus 30:13Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- 30Nehemiah 13:12and all Judah brought a tenth of the grain, new wine, and oil into the storerooms.
- 30Genesis 28:22And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”
- 30Nehemiah 10:37–38Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to the Levites, so that they shall receive tithes in all the towns where we labor.
- 32Jeremiah 33:13In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.
- 34Leviticus 26:46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
- 21Numbers 18:14Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.
- 28Leviticus 27:21When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
- 28Exodus 22:20If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
- 28Deuteronomy 20:16–17However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
- 291 Samuel 15:18–23and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’
- 302 Chronicles 31:5–6As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously provided the firstfruits of the grain, new wine, oil, and honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance—a tithe of everything.
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