Further instructions concerning individuals
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 📚“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow, the value of persons belonging to the LORD, it shall be according to your evaluation. 3 📚And if your evaluation is for a male between twenty years old and sixty years old, then your evaluation is to be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel. 4 📚And if it is a female, then your evaluation is to be thirty shekels. 5 And if the person is between five years old and twenty years old, then your evaluation is to be twenty shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female. 6 📚And if the person is between a month old and five years old, then your evaluation is to be five shekels of silver for the male, and your evaluation for the female is to be three shekels of silver. 7 📚And if the person is sixty years old or above, if a male, then your evaluation is to be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 📚But if he is poorer than your evaluation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall evaluate him; the priest is to evaluate him according to the ability of the one who vowed.9 “And if the vow is an animal that men bring as an offering to the LORD, any such that is offered to the LORD shall be holy. 10 📚The person shall not replace it or exchange a good one for a bad, or a bad one for a good, and if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and the exchanged one shall be holy. 11 📚And if it is any unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he is to present the animal to the priest, 12 and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, evaluate it, so shall it be. 13 📚But if he should ever redeem it, then he must add a fifth part of it to your evaluation.
14 📚“And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad; the evaluation of the priest will stand. 15 📚And if the one who dedicated his house would redeem it, then he must add to it the fifth part of the money of your evaluation, and it will become his.
16 📚“And if a man dedicates some part of a field of his property to the LORD, then your evaluation is to be according to the seed needed for it. A homer of barley seed is to be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the year of Jubilee, your evaluation will stand. 18 📚But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the value for him according to the years that remain to the next year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your evaluation. 19 📚And if the one who dedicated the field would ever redeem it, then he must add the fifth part of the value of your evaluation to it, and it will become his. 20 And if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is not to be redeemed any more. 21 📚And the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, like a field devoted to the LORD; it shall belong to the priest.
22 📚“And if a man dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, which is not a part of the fields of his family property, 23 📚then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your evaluation to the year of Jubilee, and on that day he shall give your evaluation as a holy thing to the LORD. 24 📚In the year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, to the one whose land it was. 25 📚And all your evaluations are to be according to the sanctuary shekel. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
26 📚“But no one may dedicate the firstborn of animals. As firstborn they are already the LORD’s; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s. 27 📚And if it is an unclean animal, then he is to redeem it according to your evaluation, and shall add to it a fifth part of it; or, if it is not redeemed, then it is to be sold according to your evaluation.
28 📚“However no devoted thing that a man irredeemably devotes to the LORD from all that he has, either man or beast, or a field of his family property, is to be sold or redeemed; every such devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.
29 📚“No one irredeemably devoted to destruction who is devoted by men is to be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.
30 📚“And all the tenth part of the produce of the land, whether the grain of the land or the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s 📖. It is holy to the LORD. 31 And if a man would ever redeem any of his tithes, he must add to it its fifth part. 32 📚And as for the tenth part of the herd, or of the flock, of whatever passes under the shepherd’s rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD. 33 📚He shall not ask whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it. If he ever does exchange it, then both it and the exchanged animal will be holy; it shall not be redeemed”.
34 📚These are the commands which the LORD gave Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.