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Leviticus 27:9-21 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

9. If the offering vowed to the Lord is an animal that may be sacrificed, every such animal given to the Lord becomes sacred.

10. The offerer shall not substitute or exchange another for it, either a worse or a better one. If the offerer exchanges one animal in place of another, both the original and its substitute shall become sacred.

11. If any unclean animal which is unfit for sacrifice to the Lord is vowed, it must be set before the priest,

12. who shall determine its value in keeping with its good or bad qualities, and the value set by the priest shall stand.

13. If the offerer wishes to redeem the animal, the person shall pay one fifth more than this valuation.

14. When someone dedicates a house as sacred to the Lord, the priest shall determine its value in keeping with its good or bad qualities, and the value set by the priest shall stand.

15. A person dedicating a house who then wishes to redeem it shall pay one fifth more than the price thus established, and then it will again belong to that individual.

16. If someone dedicates to the Lord a portion of hereditary land, its valuation shall be made according to the amount of seed required to sow it, the acreage sown with a homer of barley seed being valued at fifty silver shekels.

17. If the dedication of a field is made at the beginning of a jubilee period, the full valuation shall hold;

18. but if it is some time after this, the priest shall estimate its money value according to the number of years left until the next jubilee year, with a corresponding reduction on the valuation.

19. A person dedicating a field who then wishes to redeem it shall pay one fifth more than the price thus established, and so reclaim it.

20. If, instead of redeeming such a field, one sells it to another, it may no longer be redeemed;

21. but at the jubilee it shall be released as sacred to the Lord; like a field that is put under the ban, it shall become priestly property.

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