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27:1 The LORD said to Moses, 27:2 'Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation, 27:3 then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. 27:4 If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels. 27:5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 27:6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 27:7 And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 27:8 And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him;according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him. 27:9 'If it is an animal such as men offer as an offering to the LORD, all of such that any man gives to the LORD is holy. 27:10 He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good;and if he makes any exchange of beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. 27:11 And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered as an offering to the LORD, then the man shall bring the animal before the priest, 27:12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad;as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. 27:13 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation. 27:14 'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad;as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 27:15 And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall be his. 27:16 'If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land which is his by inheritance, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it;a sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 27:17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your full valuation; 27:18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from your valuation. 27:19 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall remain his. 27:20 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 any more; 27:21 but the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field that has been devoted;the priest shall be in possession of it. 27:22 If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of his possession by inheritance, 27:23 then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount of the valuation on that day as a holy thing to the LORD. 27:24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance. 27:25 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel. 27:26 'But a firstling of animals, which as a firstling belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate;whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's. 27:27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at your valuation, and add a fifth to it;or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at your valuation. 27:28 'But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether of man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed;every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD. 27:29 No one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed;he shall be put to death. 27:30 'All the 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. 27:31 If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 27:32 And all the tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the LORD. 27:33 A man shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it;and if he exchanges it, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy;it shall not be redeemed.' 27:34 These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.