[27:16] "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh 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. [27:17] If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. [27:18] 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. [27:19] 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. [27:20] If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; [27:21] but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.
[27:22] "'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, [27:23] 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 Yahweh. [27:24] 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. [27:25] All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
[27:26] "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's. [27:27] 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.
[27:28] "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh 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 Yahweh.
[27:29] "'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
[27:30] "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh. [27:31] If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it. [27:32] All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh. [27:33] He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"
[27:34] These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Notes:
[1] [back to 19:16] literally, "blood"