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Leviticus 27:19-30 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

19. If the one who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, they must add a fifth to its value, and the field will again become theirs.

20. If, however, they do not redeem the field, or if they have sold it to someone else, it can never be redeemed.

21. When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the Lord; it will become priestly property.

22. ‘ “If anyone dedicates to the Lord a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,

23. the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the Lord.

24. In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

25. Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

26. ‘ “No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord’s.

27. If it is one of the unclean animals, it may be bought back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If it is not redeemed, it is to be sold at its set value.

28. ‘ “But nothing that a person owns and devotes to the Lord – whether a human being or an animal or family land – may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the Lord.

29. ‘ “No one devoted to destruction may be ransomed; they are to be put to death.

30. ‘ “A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.

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