12. The priest will decide a price for that animal. It doesn’t make any difference if the animal is good or bad. If the priest decides on a price, that is the price for the animal.
13. If you want to buy back the animal, then you must add one-fifth to the price.
14. “If you dedicate your house as holy to the Lord, the priest must decide its price. It doesn’t make any difference if the house is good or bad. If the priest decides on a price, that is the price for the house.
15. But if you want to get the house back, you must add one-fifth to the price. Then you will get the house back.
16. “You might dedicate a field to the Lord. The value of this field will depend on how much seed is needed to plant it. It will be 50 shekels of silver for each homer of barley seed.
17. If you give your field to God during the year of Jubilee, then its value will be whatever the priest decides.
18. But if you give your field after the Jubilee, the priest must decide its exact price. He must count the number of years to the next year of Jubilee and use that number to decide the price.
19. If you want to buy the field back, you must add one-fifth to that price. Then you will get the field back.
20. If you don’t buy the field back and the land is sold to someone else, you cannot get the land back.
21. If you don’t buy the land back by the year of Jubilee, the field will remain holy to the Lord—it will belong to the priest forever. It will be treated like any other thing that was given completely to the Lord.
22. “If you dedicate a field to the Lord that you had bought, and it is not a part of your family’s property,
23. then the priest must count the years to the year of Jubilee and decide the price for the land. Then that land will belong to the Lord.
24. At the year of Jubilee, the land will go to the family that originally owned the land.
25. “You must use the official measure in paying these prices. The shekel by that measure weighs 20 gerahs.
26. “You can give cattle and sheep as special gifts to the Lord. But if the animal is the firstborn, it already belongs to the Lord. So you cannot give these animals as special gifts.
27. If the firstborn animal is an unclean animal, you must buy back that animal. The priest will decide the price of the animal, and you must add one-fifth to that price. If you don’t buy that animal back, the priest will sell the animal for whatever price he decides.
28. “There is a special kind of gift that people give to the Lord. It belongs only to him, and it cannot be bought back or sold. This gift belongs to the Lord. This type of gift includes people, animals, and fields from the family property.