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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD said to Moses, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate a person to the LORD by giving the equivalent value, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4for a female, set her value at thirty shekels; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5for 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; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels of silver and that of a female at three shekels of silver; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels and of a female at ten shekels. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"'If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the LORD, such an animal given to the LORD becomes holy. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one; if they should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If what they vowed is a ceremonially unclean animal--one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD--the animal must be presented to the priest, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12who will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, that is what it will be. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13If the owner wishes to redeem the animal, a fifth must be added to its value. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"'If anyone dedicates their house as something holy to the LORD, the priest will judge its quality as good or bad. Whatever value the priest then sets, so it will remain. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If the one who dedicates their house wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the house will again become theirs. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"'If anyone dedicates to the LORD part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it--fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17If they dedicate a field during the Year of Jubilee, the value that has been set remains. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, the priest will determine the value according to the number of years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and its set value will be reduced. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it will become priestly property. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"'If anyone dedicates to the LORD a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"'No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD's. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27If it is one of the unclean animals, it may be bought back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If it is not redeemed, it is to be sold at its set value. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"'But nothing that a person owns and devotes to the LORD--whether a human being or an animal or family land--may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"'No person devoted to destruction may be ransomed; they are to be put to death. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"'A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Whoever would redeem any of their tithe must add a fifth of the value to it. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Every tithe of the herd and flock--every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod--will be holy to the LORD. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33No one may pick out the good from the bad or make any substitution. If anyone does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute become holy and cannot be redeemed.'" |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34These are the commands the LORD gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites. |
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