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Leviticus 27:4-21 Common English Bible (CEB)

4. If the person is a female, her value is thirty shekels.

5. If the age of the person is between 5 and 20 years, the value for a male is twenty shekels, for a female ten shekels.

6. If the age of the person is between one month and 5 years, the value for a male is five silver shekels, for a female three silver shekels.

7. If the age of the person is 60 years or more, the value is fifteen shekels if the person is male, ten shekels for a female.

8. But if financial difficulty prevents the promise maker from giving the full value, they must set the person before the priest. The priest will assign the person a value according to what the promise maker can afford.

9. If a solemn promise involves livestock that can be offered to the Lord, any such animal given to the Lord will be considered holy.

10. The promise maker cannot replace or substitute for it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if one should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute will be holy.

11. If the solemn promise involves any kind of unclean animal that cannot be offered to the Lord, the promise maker must set the animal before the priest.

12. The priest will assign it a value, whether high or low. Its value will be what the priest says.

13. If the promise maker wishes to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to its value.

14. When someone dedicates their house to the Lord as holy, the priest will assign a value to it, whether high or low. The value is fixed, whatever value the priest assigns to it.

15. If the one who dedicates the house wishes to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to its valued price, and it will be theirs again.

16. If a person dedicates part of the land from their family property to the Lord, the value will be set according to the seed needed to plant it: fifty silver shekels per homer of barley seed.

17. If the person dedicates the piece of land during the Jubilee year, its value will stay fixed.

18. But if the person dedicates the piece after the Jubilee year, the priest will calculate the price according to the years that are left until the next Jubilee year, and the value will be reduced.

19. If the one who dedicates the land wishes to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to its valued price, and it will be theirs again.

20. But if they do not buy it back or if it was sold to someone else, it is no longer able to be bought back.

21. When the piece of land is released in the Jubilee year, it will be holy to the Lord like a piece of devoted land; it will be the priest’s property.

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