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Leviticus 27

The closing chapter of Leviticus sets the values for things vowed to the LORD: people, animals, houses and fields, priced in shekels by age and sex and redeemable for the value plus a fifth. Firstlings already belong to God and cannot be vowed, things devoted to the LORD cannot be sold or redeemed, and a tenth of the land's produce and of the herd and flock is holy to the LORD.

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Key verses

  • Verse 2A vow of a person to the LORD is settled by a fixed valuation.
  • Verse 26Firstborn animals are the LORD's already and cannot be vowed.
  • Verse 30The tithe of the land is holy to the LORD.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,SelectedLeviticus 27:1Ask

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.SelectedLeviticus 27:2Ask

And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.SelectedLeviticus 27:3Ask

And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.SelectedLeviticus 27:4Ask

And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.SelectedLeviticus 27:5Ask

And if it be from a 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.SelectedLeviticus 27:6Ask

And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.SelectedLeviticus 27:7Ask

But if he be poorer 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.SelectedLeviticus 27:8Ask

And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.SelectedLeviticus 27:9Ask

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 be holy.SelectedLeviticus 27:10Ask

And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:SelectedLeviticus 27:11Ask

And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.SelectedLeviticus 27:12Ask

But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.SelectedLeviticus 27:13Ask

And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.SelectedLeviticus 27:14Ask

And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.SelectedLeviticus 27:15Ask

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: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.SelectedLeviticus 27:16Ask

If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.SelectedLeviticus 27:17Ask

But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.SelectedLeviticus 27:18Ask

And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.SelectedLeviticus 27:19Ask

And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.SelectedLeviticus 27:20Ask

But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.SelectedLeviticus 27:21Ask

And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;SelectedLeviticus 27:22Ask

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.SelectedLeviticus 27:23Ask

In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.SelectedLeviticus 27:24Ask

And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.SelectedLeviticus 27:25Ask

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 the LORD’s.SelectedLeviticus 27:26Ask

And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.SelectedLeviticus 27:27Ask

Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.SelectedLeviticus 27:28Ask

None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.SelectedLeviticus 27:29Ask

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s: it is holy unto the LORD.SelectedLeviticus 27:30Ask

And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.SelectedLeviticus 27:31Ask

And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.SelectedLeviticus 27:32Ask

He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.SelectedLeviticus 27:33Ask

These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.SelectedLeviticus 27:34Ask

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