1 ARST Yahweh also said to Moses, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 ARST “Tell the Israelite people these things for me:‘If a man solemnly promises to set apart another person to belong only to Yahweh, Yahweh will be willing to set that person free from having to do that if the responsible man pays the priest an amount of money. The priest must calculate the amount of money in terms of the silver pieces that they use in Yahweh’ s sacred tent. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,
3 ARST These are the amounts that Yahweh has set for this kind of transaction: fifty pieces of silver for men who are between twenty and sixty years old; BSB BSB: if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
4 ARST thirty pieces of silver for adult women who are between twenty and sixty years old. BSB BSB: Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 ARST Twenty pieces of silver would be paid for young men who are between five and twenty years old; ten pieces of silver for young women who are between five and twenty years old; BSB BSB: And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 ARST five pieces of silver for boys who are between one month and five years old; three pieces of silver for girls who are between one month and five years old. BSB BSB: Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
7 ARST Fifteen pieces of silver would be paid for men who are more than sixty years old; ten pieces of silver for women who are more than sixty years old. BSB BSB: And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
8 ARST If anyone who has made such a solemn promise is very poor and unable to pay to set free the person whom he has given to Yahweh, he must take that person to the priest. The priest will set the price for freeing him to an amount that the person can pay. BSB BSB: But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.
9 ARST If someone solemnly promises Yahweh to give him an animal that is acceptable to him, that animal becomes very special to Yahweh; it belongs to him alone. BSB BSB: If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.
10 ARST The person who promised to give it must not give another animal instead of the one that he promised. He must not substitute a bad one for a good one or even a better one than the one offered. If he tries to do that, both animals will become dedicated to Yahweh. BSB BSB: He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
11 ARST If the animal that he wishes to give to Yahweh is a kind that is unacceptable to be an offering, he must take the animal to the priest. BSB BSB: But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
12 ARST The priest then will decide what its value is, according to the animal’ s quality. Whatever value the priests sets will be the value, and that is the price of the animal. BSB BSB: The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.
13 ARST If the man who gave the animal later decides that he wants to buy it back, he must pay to the priest that price plus an added one- fifth. BSB BSB: If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
14 ARST Similarly, if someone dedicates his house, and to set it apart for the honor of Yahweh, the priest will decide how much it is worth, which will depend on the house’ s condition. Whatever the priest says that it is worth, that will be its value. BSB BSB: Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.
15 ARST If a man set apart his house for the honor of Yahweh, but later he wants to buy it back, he must pay that price plus an added one- fifth, and then the house will belong to him again. BSB BSB: But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.
16 ARST If someone sets apart for the honor of Yahweh some of the property that belongs to him and his family, its value will be determined by the quantity of seed that would be needed to sow that entire tract of land. It will be ten pieces of silver for each 220 liters of seed. BSB BSB: If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
17 ARST If the man sets apart for the honor of Yahweh the land during the year of the celebration of Jubilee, its value will be the full amount. BSB BSB: If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.
18 ARST But if he sets apart his field to Yahweh after the year of the celebration of Jubilee, the priest will count the number of years until the next year of the celebration of Jubilee, and if there are not many years that remain, the price will be much lower than the full price. BSB BSB: But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be reduced.
19 ARST If the person who set apart the field for Yahweh later wants to buy it back, he must pay to the priest the price that the priest says it is worth, plus an added one- fifth, and then the field will belong to that man again. BSB BSB: And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.
20 ARST However, if he does not buy it back, or if it has been sold to someone else, he will never be permitted to buy it back again. BSB BSB: If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.
21 ARST In the year of the celebration of Jubilee, it will be permanently set apart as a holy gift for Yahweh, and it will be given to the priest. BSB BSB: When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
22 ARST If someone sets apart for the honor of Yahweh some land that he has bought, land which is not part of the land that his family has always owned, BSB BSB: Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,
23 ARST the priest must count the number of years until the next year of the celebration of Jubilee to determine how much it is worth, and the man must pay that amount to the priest on that day, and then that land will belong to him again, and his payment becomes a holy gift to Yahweh. BSB BSB: then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.
24 ARST However, in the year of the celebration of Jubilee, the land will again come into the possession of the person from whom he bought it, the person whose family had always owned that land. BSB BSB: In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
25 ARST All the silver that is paid must be calculated in terms of the official pieces of silver in the sacred tent. BSB BSB: Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26 ARST No one is permitted to dedicate the firstborn of any cow or sheep for any purpose, because the firstborn already belongs to Yahweh. BSB BSB: But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
27 ARST If someone gives to him an animal that is not acceptable to him, that person may later buy it back by paying what it is worth plus an added one- fifth of its value. If he does not buy it back, it must be sold for its standard price. BSB BSB: But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
28 ARST However, no slave or animal or family land that someone owns can be sold or bought back after it has been dedicated to Yahweh. It becomes holy to Yahweh. BSB BSB: Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
29 ARST No person who has done something that Yahweh considers to be very wicked is permitted to go free. The people must certainly execute such a person. BSB BSB: No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
30 ARST One tenth of all the crops and grain or fruit that is produced on anyone’ s land is sacred and belongs to Yahweh. BSB BSB: Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
31 ARST If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay to the priest what it is worth plus an added one- fifth. BSB BSB: If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
32 ARST And every ten domestic animals belongs to Yahweh. When a shepherd counts them as they pass under his walking stick, to decide which ones he will give to me, he must mark every tenth one as belonging to Yahweh. BSB BSB: Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
33 ARST When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones or leave the bad ones, or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he substitutes one animal for another, both animals will belong to Yahweh, and the shepherd will not be permitted to buy them back.” BSB BSB: He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
34 ARST Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses on Mount Sinai to tell to the people. BSB BSB: These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
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