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.
29. If this gift is a person, that person cannot be bought back. That person must be killed.
30. “A tenth of all crops belongs to the Lord. This means the crops from fields and the fruit from trees—a tenth belongs to the Lord.
31. So if you want to get back your tenth, you must add one-fifth to its price and then buy it back.
32. “The priests will take every tenth animal from a person’s cattle or sheep. Every tenth animal will belong to the Lord.
33. The owner should not worry if the chosen animal is good or bad or change the animal for another animal. If this happens, both animals will belong to the Lord. That animal cannot be bought back.”