[1] The LORD said to Moses, [2] "Say to the people of Israel, When a man
makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation, [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. [4] If
the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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, [12] and the priest shall value
it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.
[13] But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.
[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. [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. [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. [17] If he
dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your full
valuation; [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. [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. [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; [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. [22]
If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a
part of his possession by inheritance, [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. [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. [25] Every
valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs
shall make a shekel. [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] 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. [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. [29] No one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from
among men, shall be ransomed; he shall be put to death. [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. [31] If a man wishes to redeem any
of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. [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. [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." [34] These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses
for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.
