Rules about Valuations 1 ULT And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses,
2 ULT “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them,‘A man when he makes extraordinary a vow, by your valuation of persons to Yahweh, 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 ULT and your valuation of the male from a son of 20 years and until a son of 60 years will be{ thus}, and your valuation will be 50 shekels of silver by the shekel of the holy place. 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 ULT And if{ it is} a female, then your valuation will be 30 shekels. BSB BSB: Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 ULT And if{ it is} from a son of five years and until a son of 20 years, then your valuation will be{ for} the male 20 shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 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 ULT And if from a son of a month and until a son of five years, then your valuation will be{ for} the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your valuation{ will be} three shekels of silver. 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 ULT And if from a son of 60 years and upward, if a male, then your valuation will be 15 shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 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 ULT And if he is too poor from your valuation, then he shall stand him before the face of the priest, and the priest shall value him. Upon the mouth of what the hand of the one vowing can reach, the priest shall value him. 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 ULT And if{ it is} an animal which they will present from it an offering to Yahweh, all which he will give from it to Yahweh will be holy. 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 ULT He shall not exchange it and he shall not substitute it, good with bad or bad with good. And if substituting, he substitutes animal with animal, then it shall be{ that} it and its substitute shall be holy. 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 ULT And if{ it is} any unclean animal which they shall not present from it a present to Yahweh, then he shall stand the animal to the face of 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 ULT and the priest shall value it between good and between bad. According to your valuation, O priest, so it shall be. BSB BSB: The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.
13 ULT And if redeeming he will redeem it, then he shall add its fifth upon your valuation. BSB BSB: If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
14 ULT And a man when he consecrates his house holy to Yahweh, then the priest will value it between good and between bad. Just as the priest will value it, so it will stand. 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 ULT And if the one consecrating would redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of your valuation upon it, and it will be to him. 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 ULT And if from the field of his possession a man consecrates to Yahweh, then your valuation will be to the mouth of its seed, seed of a homer of barley at 50 shekels of silver. 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 ULT If from the year of the jubilee he consecrates his field, according to your valuation it will stand. BSB BSB: If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.
18 ULT But if after the jubilee he consecrates his field, then the priest shall calculate for him the silver upon the mouth of the years remaining until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be subtracted from your valuation. 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 ULT And if redeeming he will redeem the field, the one consecrating it, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of your valuation upon it, and it will stand to him. 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 ULT And if he does not redeem the field, and if he sells the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed 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 ULT And the field shall be, in its going out in the Jubilee, holy to Yahweh, as a field of devotion. It shall be to the priest, his possession. 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 ULT And if he consecrates to Yahweh a field of his purchase which{ is} not from the field of his possession, 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 ULT then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation until the year of the jubilee, and he shall give your valuation in that day.{ It shall be} holy 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 ULT In the year of the jubilee the field will return to him from whom he bought it, to whom to him{ is} the possession of the 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 ULT And all your valuation shall be by the shekel of the holy place; the shekel shall be 20 gerahs. BSB BSB: Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26 ULT However, a firstborn(which firstborn{ belongs} to Yahweh) among animals, a man shall not consecrate it, whether ox or sheep, it{ 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 ULT And if{ it is} among the unclean animals, then he shall ransom{ it} by your valuation and add its fifth upon it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold at your valuation. 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 ULT However, any devoted thing which a man will devote to Yahweh from all which{ belongs} to him, from man and animal and from field of his possession, it shall not be sold and it shall not be redeemed. Every devoted thing, it{ is} a holy thing of holy things 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 ULT All devoted ones who are devoted to destruction from mankind shall not be ransomed; dying he shall be put to death. BSB BSB: No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
Instruction on Tithes (Deuteronomy 14:22–29; Deuteronomy 26:1–15; Nehemiah 13:10–14)
30 ULT And all tithe of the land from the seed of the land, from the fruit of the tree,{ belongs} to Yahweh. It{ is} holy 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 ULT And if redeeming, a man will redeem from his tithe, its fifth he shall add upon it. BSB BSB: If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
32 ULT And all tithe of cattle and flock, all which passes under the rod, the tenth will be holy 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 ULT He shall not examine between good to bad, and he shall not substitute it. And if substituting, he substitutes it, then it shall be{ that} it and its substitute shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’” 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 ULT These{ are} the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses to the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai. BSB BSB: These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
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