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Your price for a person sixty years old and older will be fifteen pieces of silver for the man, and ten pieces of silver for the woman. But if the person is too poor to pay your price, he will be brought to the religious leader. The religious leader will decide the worth of the person by how much he who made the promise is able to pay.

‘If it is a kind of animal which men give as a gift to the Lord, any such animal that is given to the Lord will be holy.

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for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels[a] and of a female at ten shekels. If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay(A) the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the value(B) according to what the one making the vow can afford.

“‘If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord,(C) such an animal given to the Lord becomes holy.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 27:7 That is, about 6 ounces or about 175 grams