27:1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27:2 "Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons, 27:3 then the 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, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 27:5 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. 27:6 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. 27:7 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. 27:8 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. 27:9 "If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy. 27:10 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. 27:11 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, 27:12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values 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 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. 27:15 And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his. 27:16 "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 of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 27:17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, 27:18 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. 27:19 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. 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 anymore. 27:21 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. 27:22 If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession, 27:23 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. 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. 27:25 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel. 27:26 "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. 27:27 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. 27:28 "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. 27:29 No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. 27:30 "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. 27:31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 27:32 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. 27:33 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." 27:34 These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.