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Leviticus 27:14-27 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

14. If you promise a house to me, a priest will set the price, whatever the condition of the house.

15. But if you decide to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty per cent.

16. If you promise part of your family's land to me, its value must be determined by the amount of seed needed to plant the land, and the rate will be ten pieces of silver for every twenty kilogrammes of seed.

17. If this promise is made in the Year of Celebration, the land will be valued at the full price.

18. But any time after that, the price will be worked out according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration.

19. If you decide to buy back the land, you must pay the price plus an additional twenty per cent,

20. but you cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it.

21. When the Year of Celebration comes, the land becomes holy because it belongs to me, and it will be given to the priests.

22. If you promise me a field that you have bought,

23. its value will be decided by a priest, according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration, and the money you pay will be mine.

24. However, on the next Year of Celebration, the land will go back to the family of its original owner.

25. Every price will be set by the official standards.

26. All firstborn animals of your flocks and herds are already mine, and so you cannot promise any of them to me.

27. If you promise me a donkey, you may buy it back by adding an additional twenty per cent to its value. If you don't buy it back, it can be sold to someone else for whatever a priest has said it is worth.

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