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15 If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one-fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.[a]

Redemption of Fields Given as Votive Offerings

16 “‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it,[b] a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.[c] 17 If he consecrates his field in the Jubilee year,[d] the conversion value will stand,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 27:15 tn Heb “and it shall be to him.”
  2. Leviticus 27:16 tn Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”
  3. Leviticus 27:16 tn Heb “seed of a homer of barley in fifty shekels of silver.”
  4. Leviticus 27:17 tn Heb “from the year of the jubilee.” For the meaning of “jubilee,” see the note on Lev 25:10 above.