Leviticus 27:5 for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels and of a female at ten shekels;

English Standard Version
If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

New American Standard Bible
'If it be from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.

King James Bible
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If the person is from five to 20 years old, your assessment for a male is 20 shekels and for a female 10 shekels.

International Standard Version
If a person is from five to 20 years, then your valuation for a male is to be 20 shekels and for a female ten shekels.

American Standard Version
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But from the fifth year until the twentieth, a man shall give twenty sicles: a woman ten.

Darby Bible Translation
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, thy valuation of the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

Young's Literal Translation
and if from a son of five years even unto a son of twenty years -- then hath thy valuation been of the male twenty shekels, and for the female, ten shekels;

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

2-8. When a man shall make a singular vow, &c.—Persons have, at all times and in all places, been accustomed to present votive offerings, either from gratitude for benefits received, or in the event of deliverance from apprehended evil. And Moses was empowered, by divine authority, to prescribe the conditions of this voluntary duty.

the persons shall be for the Lord, &c.—better rendered thus:—"According to thy estimation, the persons shall be for the Lord." Persons might consecrate themselves or their children to the divine service, in some inferior or servile kind of work about the sanctuary (1Sa 3:1). In the event of any change, the persons so devoted had the privilege in their power of redeeming themselves; and this chapter specifies the amount of the redemption money, which the priest had the discretionary power of reducing, as circumstances might seem to require. Those of mature age, between twenty and sixty, being capable of the greatest service, were rated highest; young people, from five till twenty, less, because not so serviceable; infants, though devotable by their parents before birth (1Sa 1:11), could not be offered nor redeemed till a month after birth; old people were valued below the young, but above children; and the poor—in no case freed from payment, in order to prevent the rash formation of vows—were rated according to their means.