27:1   Again, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

27:2   "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ' When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall become valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to the LORD.

27:3   'If your valuation comes from the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall calculate as fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

27:4   'Or if a female, then your valuation shall consist of thirty shekels.

27:5   'If it should range from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall consist of twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.

27:6  'But if they range from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall consist of five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall consist of three shekels of silver.

27:7   'If they range from sixty years old and upward, if should consist of a male, then your valuation shall consist of fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

27:8   'But if he proves poorer than your valuation, then he shall appear before the priest and the priest shall value him; according to the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

27:9   'Now if it consists of an animal of the kind which men can present as an offering to the LORD, any such that one gives to the LORD shall prove holy.

27:10   ' He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

27:11   'If, however, it consists of any unclean animal of the kind which men do not present as an offering to the LORD, then he shall place the animal before the priest.

27:12   'The priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall happen.

27:13   'But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

27:14   'Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

27:15   'Yet if the one who consecrates it should wish to redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may become his.

27:16  'Again, if a man consecrates to the LORD part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall become proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

27:17   'If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

27:18  'If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that remain until the year of jubilee; and you shall deduct it from your valuation.

27:19   'If the one who consecrates it should ever wish to redeem the field, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may pass to him.

27:20   'Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer become redeemed;

27:21   and when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall become holy to the LORD, like a field set apart; it shall accrue for the priest as his property.

27:22   'Or if he consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which he did not use as a part of the field of his own property,

27:23   then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to the LORD.

27:24   'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

27:25   'Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall remain consistent with the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall consist of twenty gerahs.

27:26   ' However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may consecrate it; whether ox or sheep, it belongs to the LORD.

27:27  'But if it comes from the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if he does not redeem it, then he shall sell it according to your valuation.

27:28   'Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the LORD out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, he shall not sell or redeem it. Anything devoted to destruction has become most holy to the LORD.

27:29   'No one who men have set apart shall become ransomed; he shall surely receive the death penalty.

27:30   'Thus all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, belongs to the LORD; it has become holy to the LORD.

27:31   'If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it.

27:32  'For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall become holy to the LORD.

27:33  ' He cannot concern himself whether it looks good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; or if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. He cannot redeem it.'"

27:34   These commandments the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.