 1 The Lord spoke to Moses saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man shall make a special vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by your evaluation. 3 Your judgment shall be of the male from 20 years old even to 60 years old, even your judgment shall be 50 shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 If it is a female, then your judgment shall be 30 shekels. 5 If from five years old to 20 years old, then your judgment shall be of the male 20 shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 6 If from a month old to five years old, then your judgment shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your judgment shall be three shekels of silver. 7 If from 60 years old and above, if it is a male then your judgment shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 But if he is poorer than your judgment, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him. The priest shall value him according to the ability of him who vowed. 9 If it is an animal that they bring as an offering to the Lord, all that one gives of such to the Lord shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good. If he shall at all change animal for animal, then it and the exchange of it shall be holy. 11 If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer a sacrifice to the Lord, then he shall present the animal before the priest. 12 The priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest value it, so shall it be. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part of it to what you judged. 14 When a man shall sanctify his house to be holy to the Lord, then the priest shall judge it, whether it is good or bad. As the priest shall judge it, so shall it stand. 15 If one who sanctified it desires to redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the silver of your judgment, and it will be his. 16 If a man sanctifies to the Lord some part of a field that he owns, then your judgment shall be according to its seed. A homer of barley seed at 50 shekels of silver. 17 If he sanctifies his field from the year of jubilee according to your judgment it shall stand. 18 But if he sanctifies his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver according to the years that remain, even until the year of jubilee. It shall be taken from your estimation. 19 If one who sanctified the field desires in any way to redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your estimation to it, and it shall be made sure to him. 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 the Lord, as a field devoted. The possession of it shall be the priest's. 22 If a man sanctifies to the Lord a field that he bought, which is not of the fields he owns, 23 then the priest shall count to him the worth of your estimation, until the year of jubilee. He shall give your estimation in that day, a holy thing to the Lord. 24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to him who owns it in the land. 25 All your judgments shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary, 20 gerahs shall be the shekel. 26 However, the firstborn of an animal, which should be the Lord's firstborn, no man shall sanctify it, whether an ox, or sheep, it is the Lord's. 27 If it is of an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your estimation and shall add a fifth part of it to it. Or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your estimation. 28 However, no devoted thing that a man shall devote to the Lord of all that he has, either of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed. Every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 Nothing devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death. 30 All the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's. It is holy to the Lord. 31 If a man will at all redeem anything of his tithes, he shall add to it the fifth part of it. 32 All the tithe of the herd or flock, all that passes under the rod, a tenth shall be holy to the Lord 33 He shall not search whether it is good or bad, nor shall he change it. If he changes it at all, then both it and the change of it shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed. 34 These are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.
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