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1 Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak
to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to
Jehovah in a vow, according to your valuation, 3 your valuation of a male
from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver,
after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 If she is a female, then your valuation
shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old even to
twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and
for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old even to five
years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and
for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 If the
person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation
shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 But if he is
poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the
priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according
to his ability to pay.  
9 “‘If it is an animal, of which men offer an
offering to Jehovah, all that any man gives of such to Jehovah becomes holy. 10 He
shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and
if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it
is changed shall be holy. 11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do
not offer as an offering to Jehovah, then he shall set the animal before the
priest; 12 and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As
you the priest values it, so shall it be. 13 But if he will indeed redeem
it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.  
14 “‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to
Jehovah, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the
priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand. 15 If he who dedicates it
will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your
valuation to it, and it shall be his.  
16 “‘If a man dedicates to Jehovah part of the
field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for
it. The 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, according
to your valuation it shall stand. 18 But if he dedicates his field after
the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the
years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from
your valuation. 19 If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it,
then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it
shall remain his. 20 If he will not 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 goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah, as a devoted
field. It shall be owned by the priests.  
22 “‘If he dedicates a field to Jehovah which he
has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, 23 then the
priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of
Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Jehovah.
24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was
bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs. 25 All
your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty
gerahs to the shekel.  
26 “‘Only the firstborn among animals, which is
made a firstborn to Jehovah, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep. It
is Jehovah’s. 27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back
according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it; or if it
isn’t redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.  
28 “‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a
man shall devote to Jehovah of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of
the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is
most holy to Jehovah.  
29 “‘No one devoted, who shall be devoted from
among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely 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 Jehovah’s. It is holy to Jehovah. 31 If
a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. 32 All
the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth
shall be holy to Jehovah. 33 He shall not search whether it is good or
bad, neither shall he change it. If he changes it at all, then both it and that
for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”  
34 These are the commandments which Jehovah commanded
Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.  
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