Leviticus 27
1GOD spoke to Moses, saying:
2Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When anyone explicitly vows to GOD the equivalent for a human being,
3the following scale shall apply: If it is a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the equivalent is fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary weight;
4if it is a female, the equivalent is thirty shekels.
5If the age is from five years to twenty years, the equivalent is twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female.
6If the age is from one month to five years, the equivalent for a male is five shekels of silver, and the equivalent for a female is three shekels of silver.
7If the age is sixty years or over, the equivalent is fifteen shekels in the case of a male and ten shekels for a female.
8But if someone cannot afford the equivalent, they shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall make an assessment; the priest shall make the assessment according to what the vower can afford.
9If [the vow concerns] any animal that may be brought as an offering to GOD, any such that may be given to GOD shall be holy.
10One may not exchange or substitute another for it, either good for bad, or bad for good; if one does substitute one animal for another, the thing vowed and its substitute shall both be holy.
11If [the vow concerns] any impure animal that may not be brought as an offering to GOD, the animal shall be presented before the priest,
12and the priest shall assess it. Whether high or low, whatever assessment is set by the priest shall stand;
13and if one wishes to redeem it, one-fifth must be added to its assessment.
14Regarding anyone who consecrates a house to GOD: The priest shall assess it. Whether high or low, as the priest assesses it, so it shall stand;
15and if the one who has consecrated the house wishes to redeem it, one-fifth must be added to the sum at which it was assessed, and then it shall be returned.
16If anyone consecrates to GOD a land-holding, its assessment shall be in accordance with its seed requirement: fifty shekels of silver to a ḥomer of barley seed.
17If the land is consecrated as of the jubilee year, its assessment stands.
18But if the land is consecrated after the jubilee, the priest shall compute the price according to the years that are left until the jubilee year, and its assessment shall be so reduced;
19and if the one who consecrated the land wishes to redeem it, one-fifth must be added to the sum at which it was assessed, and it shall be passed back.
20But if the one [who consecrated it] did not redeem the land, and the land was sold to another party, it shall no longer be redeemable:
21when it is released in the jubilee, the land shall be holy to GOD, as land proscribed; it becomes the priest’s holding.
22If one consecrates to GOD land that was purchased, which is not one’s land-holding,
23the priest shall compute the proportionate assessment up to the jubilee year, and the assessment shall be paid as of that day, a sacred donation to GOD.
24In the jubilee year the land shall revert to the one from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is.
25All assessments shall be by the sanctuary weight, the shekel being twenty gerahs.
26A firstling of animals, however, which—as a firstling—is GOD’s, cannot be consecrated by anybody; whether ox or sheep, it is GOD’s.
27But if it is of impure animals, it may be ransomed at its assessment, with one-fifth added; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its assessment.
28But of all that anyone owns, be it human or animal or land-holding, nothing that has been proscribed for GOD may be sold or redeemed; every proscribed thing is totally consecrated to GOD.
29No human being who has been proscribed can be ransomed: they shall be put to death.
30All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are GOD’s; they are holy to GOD.
31If someone wishes to redeem any of their tithes, one-fifth must be added to them.
32All tithes of the herd or flock—of all that passes under the shepherd’s staff, every tenth one—shall be holy to GOD.
33One must not look out for good as against bad, or make substitution for it. If one does make substitution for it, then it and its substitute shall both be holy: it cannot be redeemed.
34These are the commandments that GOD gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai.