Leviticus 27:13 If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value.

◄ Leviticus 27:13 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value.

English Standard Version
But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.

New American Standard Bible
But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

King James Bible
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value."

International Standard Version
If a kinsman redeemer decides to redeem it, then he is to add a fifth to your valuation."

American Standard Version
But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which if he that offereth it will give, he shall add above the estimation the fifth part.

Darby Bible Translation
And if they will in any wise redeem it, then they shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy valuation.

Young's Literal Translation
and if he really redeem it, then he hath added its fifth to thy valuation.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

27:1-13 Zeal for the service of God disposed the Israelites, on some occasions, to dedicate themselves or their children to the service of the Lord, in his house for life. Some persons who thus dedicated themselves might be employed as assistants; in general they were to be redeemed for a value. It is good to be zealously affected and liberally disposed for the Lord's service; but the matter should be well weighed, and prudence should direct as to what we do; else rash vows and hesitation in doing them will dishonour God, and trouble our own minds.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9-13. if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord—a clean beast. After it had been vowed, it could neither be employed in common purposes nor exchanged for an equivalent—it must be sacrificed—or if, through some discovered blemish, it was unsuitable for the altar, it might be sold, and the money applied for the sacred service. If an unclean beast—such as an ass or camel, for instance, had been vowed, it was to be appropriated to the use of the priest at the estimated value, or it might be redeemed by the person vowing on payment of that value, and the additional fine of a fifth more.