Leviticus 27

27 ¹ Our Father spoke to Moses, saying:

Valuing What Is Offered

² Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When anyone makes a special vow to me, dedicating a person by the equivalent value, ³ if the valuation is for a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, the value shall be fifty shekels of silver, by the sanctuary shekel. ⁴ If it is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. ⁵ If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. ⁶ If the person is from one month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be five shekels of silver for a male and three shekels of silver for a female. ⁷ If the person is sixty years old or older, the valuation shall be fifteen shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. ⁸ But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, the person shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall set a value; according to what the one making the vow can afford, the priest shall value the person.

⁹ If the vow concerns an animal that may be offered to me, every such animal given to me shall be holy. ¹⁰ He must not exchange it or substitute another for it, a good one for a bad or a bad one for a good; and if he does substitute one animal for another, then both it and its substitute shall be holy. ¹¹ If the vow concerns any unclean animal that may not be offered to me, the animal shall be presented before the priest, ¹² and the priest shall set its value, whether good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. ¹³ But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to its valuation.

¹⁴ When someone dedicates his house as holy to me, the priest shall set its value, whether good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. ¹⁵ If the one who dedicated his house wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of its valuation in silver, and it shall be his.

¹⁶ If someone dedicates to me part of a field he holds as his possession, its valuation shall be according to the seed needed for it — fifty shekels of silver for a homer of barley seed. ¹⁷ If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand at the full valuation. ¹⁸ But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the next Year of Jubilee, and the valuation shall be reduced accordingly. ¹⁹ If the one who dedicated the field wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of its valuation in silver, and it shall remain his. ²⁰ But if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another, it may no longer be redeemed. ²¹ When the field is released in the Jubilee, it shall be holy to me, like a field devoted to me; it shall belong to the priest as his possession.

²² If someone dedicates to me a field he has bought, which is not part of his ancestral possession, ²³ the priest shall calculate for him the valuation up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall pay the valuation that day as something holy to me. ²⁴ In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. ²⁵ Every valuation shall be by the sanctuary shekel: twenty gerahs to the shekel.

²⁶ But no one may dedicate the firstborn of the animals, since the firstborn already belongs to me; whether ox or sheep, it is mine. ²⁷ If it is an unclean animal, he may buy it back at the valuation, adding a fifth to it; and if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

²⁸ Yet nothing that a person devotes to me by ban — whether a human, an animal, or a field of his possession — may be sold or redeemed. Everything so devoted is most holy to me. ¹ 1 v28 A thing "devoted by ban" was given over to our Father irrevocably — set apart so completely it could never be bought back or sold.

²⁹ No person who has been devoted by ban may be ransomed; he must be put to death.

The Tithe Belongs to Our Father

³⁰ Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the ground or of the fruit of the trees, is mine; it is holy to me. ³¹ If anyone wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. ³² Every tithe of the herd and flock — every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's rod — shall be holy to me. ³³ He shall not inspect whether it is good or bad, nor shall he substitute for it; and if he does substitute it, then both it and its substitute shall be holy and may not be redeemed.

³⁴ These are the commandments our Father gave Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.