Leviticus 27 · Parashat Bechukotai

And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying,

Speak to the children of Yisra᾽el, and say to them, If a man make a singular vow, to give to the Lord the estimated value of persons,

then the estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, the estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

And if it be a female, then the estimation shall be thirty shekels.

And if it be from five years old to twenty years old, then the estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

And if it be from a month old to five years old, then the estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female the estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then the estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

But if he be too poor for the estimated value, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value him.

And if it be a beast, of which men bring an offering to the Lord, all that any man gives of such to the Lord shall be holy.

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 beast for beast, then it and its substitute shall be holy.

And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice to the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

and the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest values it, so shall it be.

But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof to the estimation.

And when a man shall sanctify his house to be dedicated to the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation to it, and it shall be his.

And if a man shall dedicate to the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then the estimation shall be according to the seed required for it, a ĥomer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

If he dedicate his field from the year of jubilee, according to the estimation it shall stand.

But if he dedicate his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain, even to the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from the estimation.

And if he that sanctified the field will redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation to it, and it shall become his property.

And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy to the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession of it shall be the priest’s.

And if a man dedicate to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of the estimation, to the year of the jubilee, and he shall give the estimation in that day, as a holy thing to the Lord.

In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

And all estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gera shall be the shekel.

Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord’s firstling, no man shall dedicate that; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord’s.

And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to the estimation, and shall add to it a fifth part of it: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to the estimation.

Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to the Lord of all that he has, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.

None devoted of men, which shall be doomed to death, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy to the Lord.

And if a man will at all redeem of his tithes, he shall add to it the fifth part of it.

And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the Lord.

He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and its substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moshe for the children of Yisra᾽el in Mount Sinay. Vayyiqra