Rules about Valuations
1. The LORD said to Moses,
2. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
3. then the valuation shall be for a male twenty to sixty years old, set at fifty shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel.
4. If it is a female, the valuation is thirty shekels.
5. If the person is five to twenty years old, set the valuation for a male at twenty shekels and for a female at ten shekels.
6. If the person is one month to five years old, set the valuation for a male at five shekels of silver and for a female at three shekels of silver.
7. And if the person is sixty years old or more, set the valuation for a male at fifteen shekels and for a female at ten shekels.
8. But if one is too poor to pay the valuation, he must present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him.
9. Now if it is an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such that one gives to the LORD shall be holy.
10. He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does replace one animal with another, both it and its substitute will be holy.
11. If it is any unclean animal that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, he must present it before the priest.
12. The priest shall assess its value, whether good or bad; as the priest makes the assessment, so it shall be.
13. But if the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
14. If a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall assess its value, whether good or bad. As the priest assesses it, so it shall stand.
15. And if the one who consecrates his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
16. If a man consecrates to the LORD any part of a field that he possesses, its value shall be set according to seed requirements: fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
17. If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, its value shall stand according to your valuation.
18. But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest shall calculate the price for him according to the years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, so that the valuation will be reduced.
19. If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to its valuation price, and the field shall transfer back to him.
20. But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable.
21. When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the LORD like a field that has been devoted; it will belong to the priest as his property.
22. If a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not part of his inherited land,
23. then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of the valuation up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the valuation price on that day as a holy offering to the LORD.
24. In the Year of Jubilee, the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, the one to whom it belonged as inherited land.
25. Every valuation shall be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26. No one who has been set apart for destruction shall be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
27. And of all the livestock he owns, a man may not redeem a single animal that he has set apart for destruction; they are to be put to death.
28. However, no devoted thing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a person, an animal, or his inherited field—shall be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
29. No person who has been set apart for destruction can be ransomed; he must be put to death.
Instruction on Tithes
30. Now every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
31. If a man wishes to redeem any part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
32. Every tithe of the herds or flocks, every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd’s rod, will be holy to the LORD.
33. He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution for it. If he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will become holy; they cannot be redeemed.”
34. These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.