Leviticus 27
King James Version
27 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation.
3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
22 And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord's.
27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.
29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord.
31 And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.
33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
34 These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Leviticus 27
New Catholic Bible
Redemptive Offerings[a]
Chapter 27
Offerings and Dedications.[b] 1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel saying to them: When a person makes a special vow to dedicate people to the Lord by giving the equivalent sum of money, 3 you shall establish the value of a male from twenty to sixty years old as being fifty shekels of silver, according to the measure of the sanctuary,[c] 4 and if it is a woman, then the value is thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then the estimated value of the person is twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. 6 If the person be from one month old to five years old, then the estimation of the value of a male is five shekels and the estimation of the value of a female is three shekels. 7 If a person is sixty years old or older, the estimation of the value of a male is fifteen shekels and the estimation of the value of a female is ten shekels. 8 But if anyone is too poor to pay the estimated value, then he will present himself before the priest and the priest will make an estimation based on the ability of the person vowing to pay. The priest will establish the value.
9 “If he brings an animal as an offering to the Lord, then everything that he has given to the Lord will be holy. 10 He should not exchange it, a good one for a bad one or a bad one for a good one. If he should substitute one animal for another, then both the original and the substitution become holy. 11 If it is an unclean animal, one that a person cannot offer to the Lord, then he will bring the animal before the priest 12 and the priest will determine whether it is good or bad and the priest will give an estimation of its value. This is how it will be established. 13 If the owner wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to your estimation of its value.
14 “If a man sets apart his house as something holy to the Lord, the priest shall make an estimation of it, whether it is good or bad, and the priest shall establish its value. This is how it shall be established. 15 If he desires to redeem the house that he has set apart, he shall add a fifth to its estimated value, and then it shall be his. 16 If a man sets apart a piece of his property to the Lord, then your estimation of its value shall be based on the seed that it takes to sow it, a homer[d] of barley being valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he sets the field apart at the beginning of the Jubilee Year, this shall be your evaluation. 18 But if he sets apart the field after the Jubilee Year, the priest shall determine the value according to the number of years remaining until the Jubilee Year, and thus the evaluation shall be adjusted. 19 If he wishes to redeem the field that he had set apart, then he shall add a fifth to your evaluation and it shall be his. 20 But if he does not redeem the field, or if he sold the field to another person, then it is not to be redeemed anymore, 21 but when the field is released in the Jubilee Year, it shall be holy to the Lord. It will be treated like a priest’s field, and it shall be their property.
22 “If a man sets apart a field that he bought, a field that is not his family’s inheritance, dedicating it[e] to the Lord, 23 then the priest shall make an estimation of its value from then until the Jubilee Year, and the man shall pay the estimation that day as something holy to the Lord. 24 In the Jubilee Year the field shall be returned to the one from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.
25 “Every estimation is determined according to the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs[f] to the shekel.
26 Offerings Not Redeemable.[g]“No one shall dedicate the firstborn of an animal, for the firstborn already belongs to the Lord, whether it be an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the Lord. 27 If it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it based on its evaluation and add a fifth to its value. If it is not redeemed, then it should be sold for its established value.
28 “But nothing that a person owns and is put under the ban for the Lord, be it man or animal or ancestral property, can be sold or redeemed. Everything set aside is most holy to the Lord. 29 No person under the ban can be redeemed. He must be put to death.
30 “Everything that belongs to the tithe of the land, be it the seed of the land or the fruit of the tree, belongs to the Lord. It is holy to the Lord. 31 If someone wants to redeem his tithes, he shall add one-fifth to its value. 32 As to the tithes of the herd or the flock, of everything passing under the herdsman’s staff, the tenth to pass shall be holy to the Lord. 33 He shall not investigate to see if it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it for another. If he exchanges it, then the first animal and its substitute shall both be holy and are not to be redeemed.” 34 These are the commandments that the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 27:1 This juridical supplement, which may seem dry as dust, provides norms useful in avoiding the exploitation of persons and things consecrated to God.
- Leviticus 27:1 Men were always regarded as taking priority over women, since the latter were considered inferior to them.
- Leviticus 27:3 A (silver) shekel was worth a gram of gold and was divided into twenty gerahs. The measure of the sanctuary was either a specimen kept in the sanctuary or a shekel of greater value. In the ancient Orient women “were worth less”; this was a sign of their inferiority to men.
- Leviticus 27:16 A homer contains about 200 liters, and is equal to 10 ephahs.
- Leviticus 27:22 Dedicating it: anything that was made anathema or forbidden (Hebrew, herem) was solemnly consecrated to God, without reservation and irrevocably; no one could profit by what had thus been consecrated. See Deut 13:14-16; 20:10-15; also Jos 7:1-21.
- Leviticus 27:25 A gerah was the smallest unit of weight: six grains.
- Leviticus 27:26 It is obviously impossible to consecrate to God what is his by right, nor, generally speaking, can it be bought back. This is true of what is anathema or “dedicated” to God: according to a practice inherited from the holy war, that which is consecrated to the Lord in this unqualified fashion must be destroyed, or else (in the perspective adopted by a less warlike mentality) must be reserved exclusively for the priests (Jos 6:17).
Levítico 27
Nueva Biblia Viva
Rescate de las ofrendas al Señor
27 El Señor le ordenó a Moisés 2 que les dijera a los israelitas: «Cuando una persona haga el voto especial de darse a sí mismo al Señor, tendrá que hacer los siguientes pagos para ser liberada del voto:
3 »Un hombre, cuya edad fluctúe entre los veinte y los sesenta años, pagará cincuenta monedas de plata, según la moneda del santuario.
4 »Una mujer, cuya edad fluctúe entre los veinte y los sesenta años pagará treinta monedas de plata.
5 »Un muchacho entre los cinco y los veinte años, pagará veinte monedas de plata, y una mujer de la misma edad pagará diez monedas de plata.
6 »Por los niños de un mes a cinco años se pagarán cinco monedas de plata, y por las niñas de la misma edad se pagarán tres monedas.
7 »Un hombre mayor de sesenta años, pagará quince monedas de plata, y por una mujer de la misma edad se pagarán diez monedas.
8 »Pero si la persona que hizo el voto es demasiado pobre para pagar el precio establecido, será llevada a la presencia del sacerdote, y este acordará el precio que la persona deberá pagar, de acuerdo con los recursos que tenga.
9 »Pero si se presenta un animal como ofrenda al Señor, el animal quedará consagrado al Señor. 10 Por eso, no se podrá cambiar por otro animal. Así que un animal bueno no se podrá cambiar por uno malo, ni uno malo se podrá cambiar por uno bueno. Si se hiciera ese cambio, los dos animales pertenecerán al Señor.
11-12 »Pero si el animal ofrecido al Señor es un animal impuro, el dueño lo presentará al sacerdote para que determine su precio que se deberá pagar a cambio. 13 Si el dueño quiere recuperar su animal, entonces deberá añadir un veinte por ciento más sobre el valor estipulado por el sacerdote.
14-15 »Si alguno ofrece su casa al Señor, y luego desea recuperarla, el sacerdote establecerá su valor, y el hombre pagará esa suma más el veinte por ciento, y la casa será suya nuevamente.
16 »Si alguien consagra una parte de su campo al Señor, el sacerdote determinará el precio del terreno de acuerdo con la cantidad de semilla que se pueda sembrar en él. Por cada doscientos veinte kilos de semilla se pagarán cincuenta monedas de plata. 17 Si alguien consagra su campo en el año del jubileo, pagará el total de su valor; 18 pero si lo hace después del año de jubileo, entonces el valor será calculado en proporción al número de años que falten para el próximo jubileo.
19 »Si la persona decide recuperar el campo, pagará el veinte por ciento sobre lo establecido por el sacerdote, y el campo volverá a su poder. 20 Pero si decide no recuperarlo o si ha vendido el campo a otra persona y ha dado al Señor sus derechos en el año de jubileo, no le será devuelto. 21 Cuando el campo sea liberado en el año de jubileo, pertenecerá al Señor, como campo consagrado a él, y será entregado a los sacerdotes.
22 »Si alguien dedica al Señor un campo comprado, que no es parte de su posesión familiar, 23 el sacerdote estimará su valor según lo que falte para el año del jubileo, e inmediatamente el oferente pagará al Señor el valor estimado. 24 En el año del jubileo el campo volverá a ser propiedad de su dueño original.
25 »Todos los precios se calcularán de acuerdo con la moneda oficial del santuario, que es de diez gramos de plata.
26 »No pueden consagrar al Señor el primogénito de sus bueyes u ovejas, porque ya le pertenecen a él, por ser las primeras crías. 27 Pero, si es el primogénito de un animal impuro, el propietario pagará según la estimación hecha por el sacerdote, más el veinte por ciento. Si el propietario no desea recuperarlo, el sacerdote puede vender el animal a otra persona.
28 »Sin embargo, cualquier cosa consagrada al Señor, ya se trate de personas, animales o tierras, no será vendida ni recuperada, porque es cosa santísima delante del Señor. 29 Ninguno que haya sido sentenciado a muerte podrá pagar por su rescate, sino que deberá morir.
30 »La décima parte del producto de la tierra, sean cereales o frutas, es del Señor, y es santa. 31 Si alguien desea rescatar este producto, debe pagar su valor más el veinte por ciento. 32 El diezmo de sus vacas, ovejas y animales domésticos es del Señor. 33 La parte que pertenece al Señor no se podrá cambiar. Así que nadie puede cambiar un animal bueno por uno malo, pues en ese caso los dos animales serán del Señor, y no podrán ser rescatados».
34 Estos son los mandamientos para el pueblo de Israel que Dios le dio a Moisés, en el monte Sinaí.
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