Leviticus 27:16-34 ▼

16 |If a person consecrates to the LORD a portion of the field from his inheritance, then your valuation is to be based on its capacity for yielding a harvest. Each omer of barley is to be valued at 50 shekels of silver.

17 If he consecrates his field in the year of jubilee, it is to be based on your valuation.

18 If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, then the priest is to account to him the silver according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, with a deduction corresponding to your valuation.

19 |If the one who consecrated the field intends to redeem it, then he is to add one fifth of your valuation to it in silver, then it is to be established as his.

20 But if he won't redeem the field, but instead sells it to another person, then it is not to be redeemed anymore.

21 When the field is released in the jubilee, it will be holy to the LORD. As a field that's devoted, it is to belong to the priest as his inheritance.

22 If he consecrates a field that he had bought and that isn't part of his inheritance,

23 then the priest is to account to him the evaluated worth until the year of jubilee. Then he is to give the amount of valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.

24 During the year of jubilee, the field is to be returned by the one who originally sold it—that is, to the owner of the land.

25 Every valuation is to be according to the shekel of the sanctuary, evaluated at 20 gerahs to the shekel.

26 |No person is to consecrate the firstborn, because the firstborn of the animals already belongs to the LORD. Whether ox or goat, it belongs to the LORD.

27 If it's an unclean animal, then he is to ransom it according to your valuation, adding a fifth to it. If it's not redeemed, then it is to be sold according to your valuation.

28 However, any devoted thing that a person consecrates to the LORD from what he owns—whether man, animals, or inherited fields—is not to be sold or redeemed. Any devoted thing is most sacred. It belongs to the LORD.

29 But anyone who is completely devoted from among human beings is not to be ransomed. He is certainly to be put to death.

30 |Any tithes of the land—from grain grown on the land or from fruit grown on the trees—belong to the LORD. They are sacred to the LORD.

31 But if a person wishes to redeem his tithe, he is to add a fifth to it.

32 All the tithes from cattle and flocks that pass under the measuring rod are sacred to the LORD.

33 He is not to examine it to see if it's good or bad or even exchange it. If he does exchange it, what has been exchanged as well as its substitute is sacred. It is not to be redeemed.|

34 These are the commands that the LORD commanded Moses to deliver to the Israelis on Mount Sinai.