Holy to Yahweh

27 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘^(A)When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to Yahweh. ³ If your valuation is of the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be ^[a]fifty shekels of silver, according to ^(B)the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁴ Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. ⁵ If it be from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels. ⁶ But if they are from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall be ^(C)five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. ⁷ If they are from sixty years old and upward, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. ⁸ But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be ^[b]presented before the priest, and the priest shall value him; ^(D)according to ^[c]the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

⁹ ‘Now if it is an animal of the kind which ^[d]men can bring near as an offering to Yahweh, any such that one gives to Yahweh shall be holy. ^10 (E)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. ¹¹ If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which ^[e]men do not bring near as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall ^[f]present the animal before the priest. ¹² And the priest shall value it ^[g]as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. ¹³ But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

¹⁴ ‘Now if a man sets his house apart as holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall value it ^[h]as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. ¹⁵ Yet if the one who sets it apart as holy should wish to redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his.

¹⁶ ‘Again, if a man sets apart as holy to Yahweh a portion of the fields of his own possession, then your valuation shall be ^[i]proportionate to the seed needed for it: a ^[j]homer of barley seed at ^[k]fifty shekels of silver. ¹⁷ If he sets apart his field as holy from the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. ¹⁸ If he sets apart his field as holy after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for ^[l]him ^[m]proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation. ¹⁹ If the one who sets it apart as holy should ever wish to redeem the field, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it so that it may stand as his own. ²⁰ Yet if he will not redeem the field, ^[n]but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed; ²¹ and it will be that when it ^[o]reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to Yahweh, like a field that is ^[p]devoted; ^(F)it shall be for the priest as his possession. ²² Or if he sets apart as holy to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not a portion of the field of his own possession, ²³ then the priest shall calculate for ^[q]him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to Yahweh. 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. ²⁵ Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be according to ^(G)the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty ^[r]gerahs.

²⁶ ‘^(H)However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to Yahweh, no man may set it apart as holy; whether ox or sheep, it is Yahweh’s. ²⁷ But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ^[s]ransom it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

²⁸ ‘Nevertheless, ^(I)anything which a man ^[t]devotes to Yahweh out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own possession, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything ^[u]devoted to destruction is most holy to Yahweh. ²⁹ No ^[v]one who may have been ^[w]devoted among men shall be ^[x]ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

³⁰ ‘Thus ^(J)all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, belongs to Yahweh; it is holy to Yahweh. ³¹ If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it. ³² For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever ^(K)passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to Yahweh. ^33 (L)He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; or if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.’”

^34 (M)These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.