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Leviticus 27

New International Reader’s Version



1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 ‘Speak to the Israelites. Tell them, “Suppose someone makes a special promise to set a person apart to serve the LORD. Here is how much it will cost to set that person free from the promise to serve. 3 The cost for a male between the ages of twenty and sixty is 600 grams of silver. It must be weighed out in keeping with the standard weights that are used in the sacred tent. 4 The cost for a female of the same age is 360 grams of silver. 5 The cost for a male between the ages of five and twenty is 240 grams of silver. The cost for a female of the same age is 120 grams of silver. 6 The cost for a male between the ages of one month and five years is 60 grams of silver. The cost for a female of the same age is 35 grams of silver. 7 The cost for a male who is sixty years old or more is 180 grams of silver. The cost for a female of the same age is 120 grams of silver. 8 But suppose the one who makes the special promise is too poor to pay the required amount. Then they must bring to the priest the person who will be set free. The priest will decide the right value for that person. It will be based on how much the one who makes the promise can afford. 9 ‘ “Suppose what they promised is an animal that the LORD will accept as an offering. Then the animal given to the LORD becomes holy. 10 The one who makes the promise must not trade it. They must not trade a good animal for a bad one. And they must not trade a bad animal for a good one. Suppose they choose one animal instead of another. Then both animals become holy. 11 Suppose the animal they promised is not ‘clean’. Suppose the LORD will not accept it as an offering. Then the animal must be brought to the priest. 12 He will decide whether it is good or bad. Its value will be what he decides it will be. 13 Suppose the owner wants to buy the animal back. Then a fifth must be added to its cost. 14 ‘ “Suppose someone sets apart their house as something holy to the LORD. Then the priest will decide whether it is good or bad. Its value will remain what he decides it will be. 15 Suppose the person sets apart their house. And suppose later they want to buy it back. Then they must add a fifth to its value. The house will belong to them again. 16 ‘ “Suppose someone sets apart a piece of their family’s land to the LORD. Then here is how its value must be decided. It must be based on the number of seeds that are required to grow a full crop on it. That value will be 600 grams of silver for every 120 kilograms of barley seeds. 17 Suppose they set apart their field during the Year of Jubilee. Then the value that has been decided will not be changed. 18 But suppose they set apart their field after the Year of Jubilee. Then here is how the priest will decide its value. It will be based on the number of years that are left until the next Year of Jubilee. The value decided will be reduced. 19 Suppose the one who set apart their field wants to buy it back. Then they must add a fifth to its value. The field will belong to them again. 20 But suppose they do not buy back the field. Instead, suppose they sell it to someone else. Then they can never buy it back. 21 When the field is set free in the Year of Jubilee, it will become holy. It will be like a field set apart to the LORD. It will become the property of the priests. 22 ‘ “Suppose someone sets apart to the LORD a field they have bought. And suppose it is not part of their family’s land. 23 Then here is how the priest will decide its value. It will be based on the number of years that are left until the Year of Jubilee. The owner must pay that value on the day it is decided. The money is holy. It is set apart for the LORD. 24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will go back to the person it was bought from. That person is the one who had owned the land before. 25 Every amount of money must be weighed out in keeping with the standard weights used in the sacred tent. 26 ‘ “But no one can set apart the first male animal born to its mother. That animal already belongs to the LORD. It does not matter whether it is an ox or a sheep. It belongs to the LORD. 27 Suppose it is an ‘unclean’ animal. Then the owner may buy it back at the value that has been decided. And they must add a fifth to its value. But suppose it is not bought back. Then it must be sold at the value that has been decided. 28 ‘ “But nothing a person owns and sets apart to the LORD can be sold or bought back. It does not matter whether it is a human being or an animal or a family’s land. Everything set apart to the LORD is very holy to him. 29 ‘ “No one set apart in a special way to be destroyed can be bought back. They must be put to death. 30 ‘ “A tenth of everything the land produces belongs to the LORD. That includes corn from the soil and fruit from the trees. It is holy. It is set apart for him. 31 Suppose someone wants to buy back some of their tenth. Then they must add a fifth of the cost to it. 32 Every tenth part of herds and flocks will be holy. They will be set apart for the LORD. That includes every tenth animal that its shepherd marks with his wooden staff. 33 No one may pick out the good animals from the bad. They must not choose one animal instead of another. But if anyone does, both animals become holy. They can’t be bought back.” ’ 34 The LORD gave Moses all these commands on Mount Sinai for the Israelites. 

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Leviticus 27

English Standard Version



1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, (Jud 11:30; Jud 11:39; 1Sa 1:11; 1Sa 1:28) 3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels[1] of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. (Ex 30:13; Le 27:25) 4 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford. 9 “If the vow[2] is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. 10 He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. (Le 27:33) 11 And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, 12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. 13 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation. (Le 22:14; Le 27:15; Le 27:19) 14 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his. (Le 27:13) 16 “If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer[3] of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, 18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. (Le 25:15; Le 27:23) 19 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. (Le 27:13) 20 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 anymore. 21 But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it. (Le 25:28; Le 25:30; Le 25:33; Le 25:41; Le 27:28; Nu 18:14; Eze 44:29) 22 If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession, (Le 25:10; Le 25:25) 23 then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord. (Le 27:18) 24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. (Le 25:28) 25 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs[4] shall make a shekel. (Ex 30:13; Le 27:3) 26 “But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. (Ex 13:2) 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation. (Le 27:11) 28 “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. (Le 27:21; Jos 6:17; 1Sa 15:21) 29 No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction[5] from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. (Nu 21:2; Jud 11:35) 30 “Every 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. (Ge 14:20; Ge 28:22; Nu 18:21; Nu 18:24; De 14:28; 2Ch 31:5; 2Ch 31:12; Ne 13:12; Mal 3:8; Mal 3:10) 31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. (Jer 33:13; Eze 20:37) 33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.” (Le 27:10) 34 These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai. (Le 25:1; Le 26:46) 

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