Month: February 2020

The Holiness of the Priests

1 TheLordsaid to Moses: “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives,

2 except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother.

3 He may make himself unclean for his young unmarried sister in his immediate family.

4 He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriageand so defile himself.

5 “Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.

6 They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God.For they present the fire offerings to Yahweh, the food of their God, and they must be holy.

7 They are not to marry a woman defiled by prostitution.They are not to marry one divorcedby her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.

8 You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, Yahweh who sets you apart, am holy.

9 If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by promiscuity,she defiles her father; she must be burned up.

10 “The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordainedto wear the garments, must not dishevel his hairor tear his garments.

11 He must not go near any dead person or make himself unclean even for his father or mother.

12 He must not leave the sanctuary or he will desecrate the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him;I am Yahweh.

13 “He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.

14 He is not to marry a widow,a divorced woman,or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

15 so that he does not corrupt his bloodlineamong his people, for I am Yahweh who sets him apart.”

Physical Defects and Priests

16 TheLordspoke to Moses:

17 “Tell Aaron: None of your descendants throughout your generations who has a physical defectis to come near to present the foodof his God.

18 No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;

19 no man who has a broken foot or hand,

20 or who is a hunchback or a dwarf,or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs,or a crushed testicle.

21 No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to theLord. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.

22 He may eat the food of his God from what is especially holy as well as from what is holy.

23 But because he has a defect, he must not go near the curtainor approach the altar. He is not to desecrate My sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sets them apart.”

24 Moses said this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.

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Priests and Their Food

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to deal respectfully with the holy offerings of the Israelites that they have consecrated to Me, so they do not profane My holy name;I am Yahweh.

3 Say to them: If any man from any of your descendants throughout your generations is in a state of uncleanness yet approaches the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate to theLord, that person will be cut off from My presence; I am Yahweh.

4 No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin diseaseor a discharge is to eat from the holy offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything made unclean by a dead person or by a man who has an emission of semen,

5 or whoever touches any swarming creature that makes him unclean or any person who makes him unclean — whatever his uncleanness —

6 the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until eveningand is not to eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body with water.

7 When the sun has set, he will become clean, and then he may eat from the holy offerings, for that is his food.

8 He must not eat an animal that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts,making himself unclean by it; I am Yahweh.

9 They must keep My instruction,or they will be guilty and die because they profane it; I am Yahweh who sets them apart.

10 “No one outside a priest’s familyis to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired hand is not to eat the holy offering.

11 But if a priest purchases someone with his money, that person may eat it, and those born in his house may eat his food.

12 If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family,she is not to eat from the holy contributions.

13 But if the priest’s daughter becomes widowed or divorced, has no children, and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she may share her father’s food. But no outsider may share it.

14 If anyone eats a holy offering in error,he must add a fifth to its value and give the holy offering to the priest.

15 The priests must not profane the holy offerings the Israelites give to theLord

16 by letting the people eat their holy offerings and having them bear the penalty of restitution.For I am Yahweh who sets them apart.”

Acceptable Sacrifices

17 TheLordspoke to Moses:

18 “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the foreign residentsin Israel who presents his offering— whether they present freewill gifts or payment of vows to theLordas burnt offerings —

19 must offer an unblemished malefrom the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for you to be accepted.

20 You are not to present anything that has a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

21 “When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to theLordto fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it.

22 You are not to present any animal to theLordthat is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash,or scabs; you may not put any of them on the altar as a fire offering to theLord.

23 You may sacrifice as a freewill offering any animal from the herd or flock that has an elongated or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable as a vow offering.

24 You are not to present to theLordanything that has bruised, crushed, torn, or severed testicles;you must not sacrifice them in your land.

25 Neither you nora foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.”

26 TheLordspoke to Moses:

27 “When an ox, sheep, or goat is born, it must remain withits mother for seven days; from the eighth dayon, it will be acceptable as a gift, a fire offering to theLord.

28 But you are not to slaughter an animal from the herd or flock on the same day as its young.

29 When you sacrifice a thank offeringto theLord, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

30 It is to be eaten on the same day.Do not let any of it remain until morning; I am Yahweh.

31 “You are to keep My commands and do them; I am Yahweh.

32 You must not profane My holy name; I must be treated as holyamong the Israelites. I am Yahweh who sets you apart,

33 the One who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh.”

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Holy Days

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are My appointed times,the times of theLordthat you will proclaim as sacred assemblies.

3 “Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest,a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbathto theLordwherever you live.

4 “These are theLord’s appointed times, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

5 The Passoverto theLordcomes in the first month, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the month.

6 The Festival of Unleavened Breadto theLordis on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

7 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.

8 You are to present a fire offering to theLordfor seven days. On the seventh day there will be a sacred assembly; you must not do any daily work.”

9 TheLordspoke to Moses:

10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest,you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.

11 He will wave the sheaf before theLordso that you may be accepted; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.

12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lambwithout blemishas a burnt offering to theLord.

13 Its grain offering is to be four quartsof fine flour mixed with oil as a fire offering to theLord, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering will be one quartof wine.

14 You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grainuntil this very day, and until you have brought the offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

15 “You are to count sevencomplete weeksstarting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.

16 You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grainto theLord.

17 Bring two loaves of bread from your settlements as a presentation offering, each of them made from four quartsof fine flour, baked with yeast, as firstfruitsto theLord.

18 You are to present with the bread seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to theLord, with their grain offerings and drink offerings, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to theLord.

19 You are also to prepare one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a fellowship sacrifice.

20 The priest will wave the lambs with the bread of firstfruits as a presentation offering before theLord; the bread and the two lambs will be holy to theLordfor the priest.

21 On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.

22 When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap all the way to the edge of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident;I am Yahweh your God.”

23 TheLordspoke to Moses:

24 “Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and joyful shouting— a sacred assembly.

25 You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to theLord.”

26 TheLordagain spoke to Moses:

27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.You are to hold a sacred assembly and practice self-denial;you are to present a fire offering to theLord.

28 On this particular day you are not to do any work, for it is a Day of Atonement to make atonement for yourselves before theLordyour God.

29 If any person does not practice self-denial on this particular day, he must be cut off from his people.

30 I will destroy among his people anyone who does any work on this same day.

31 You are not to do any work. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations wherever you live.

32 It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial. You are to observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”

33 TheLordspoke to Moses:

34 “Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Boothsto theLordbegins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

35 There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.

36 You are to present a fire offering to theLordfor seven days. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a fire offering to theLord. It is a solemn gathering;you are not to do any daily work.

37 “These are theLord’s appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to theLord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

38 These are in addition to the offerings for theLord’s Sabbaths, your gifts, all your vow offerings, and all your freewill offerings that you give to theLord.

39 “You are to celebrate theLord’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

40 On the first day you are to take the productof majestic trees — palm fronds,boughs of leafy trees,and willows of the brook— and rejoice before theLordyour God for seven days.

41 You are to celebrate it as a festival to theLordseven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month.

42 You are to live in boothsfor seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in booths,

43 so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.”

44 So Moses declared theLord’s appointed times to the Israelites.

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Tabernacle Oil and Bread

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

2 “Command the Israelites to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light, in order to keep the lamp burning continually.

3 Aaron is to tend it continually from evening until morning before theLordoutside the veilof the testimonyin the tent of meeting. This is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

4 He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in theLord’s presence.

5 “Take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves;each loaf is to be made with four quarts.

6 Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold tablebefore theLord.

7 Place pure frankincensenear each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portionfor the bread and a fire offeringto theLord.

8 The bread is to be set out before theLordevery Sabbath day as a perpetual covenantobligation on the part of the Israelites.

9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the fire offerings to theLord; this is a permanent rule.”

A Case of Blasphemy

10 Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father wasamong the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.

11 Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name,and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.)

12 They put him in custodyuntil theLord’s decisioncould be made clear to them.

13 Then theLordspoke to Moses:

14 “Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.

15 And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

16 Whoever blasphemes the name of Yahweh is to be put to death;the whole community must stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the foreign resident or the native.

17 “If a man kills anyone, he must be put to death.

18 Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life.

19 If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him:

20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.

21 Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death.

22 You are to have the same law for the foreign resident and the native, because I am Yahweh your God.”

23 After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as theLordhad commanded Moses.

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Sabbath Years and Jubilee

1 TheLordspoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:

2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to theLord.

3 You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.

4 But there will be a Sabbath of complete restfor the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to theLord: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

5 You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.

6 Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you — for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you.

7 All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.

8 “You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to 49.

9 Then you are to sound a trumpet loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement.

10 You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee,when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

11 The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.

12 It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.

13 “In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.

14 If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheatone another.

15 You are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of remaining harvest years.

16 You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.

17 You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

18 “You are to keep My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

19 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.

20 If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce? ’

21 I will appoint My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.

23 “The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

24 You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.

25 If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

26 If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospersand obtains enough to redeem his land,

27 he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.

28 But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.

29 “If a man sells a residence in a walled city, his right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale; his right of redemption will last a year.

30 If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its purchaser throughout his generations. It is not to be released on the Jubilee.

31 But houses in villages that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.

32 “Concerning the Levitical cities,the Levites always have the right to redeem houses in the cities they possess.

33 Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem— a house sold in a city they possess — must be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.

34 The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.

35 “If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself amongyou, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.

36 Do not profit or take interest from him,but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

37 You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

39 “If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you,you must not force him to do slave labor.

40 Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

41 Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.

42 They are not to be sold as slaves,because they are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt.

43 You are not to rule over them harshlybut fear your God.

44 Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

45 You may also purchase them from the foreigners staying with you, or from their families living among you — those born in your land. These may become your property.

46 You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

47 “If a foreigner or temporary resident living among you prospers, but your brother living near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner living among you, or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

48 he has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.

49 His uncle or cousin may redeem him, or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself.

50 The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. It will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired hand.

51 If many years are still left, he must pay his redemption price in proportion to them based on his purchase price.

52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his remaining years.

53 He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A foreign owner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.

54 If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released at the Year of Jubilee.

55 For the Israelites are My slaves.They are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

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Covenant Blessings and Discipline

1 “Do not make idols for yourselves,set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am Yahweh your God.

2 You must keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary;I am Yahweh.

3 “If you follow My statutes and faithfully observe My commands,

4 I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.

6 I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

8 Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

9 “I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.

10 You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

11 I will place My residenceamong you, and I will not reject you.

12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yokeand enabled you to live in freedom.

14 “But if you do not obey Me and observe all these commands —

15 if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands — and break My covenant,

16 then I will do this to you: I will bring terroron you — wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

17 I will turnagainst you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

18 “But if after these things you will not obey Me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.

19 I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

20 and your strength will be used up for nothing.Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

21 “If you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

22 I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.

23 “If in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but act with hostility toward Me,

24 then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.

25 I will bring a sword against youto execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.

26 When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

27 “And if in spite of this you do not obey Me but act with hostility toward Me,

28 I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.

29 You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols;I will reject you.

31 I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

32 I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

33 But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

34 “Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.

35 As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.

36 “I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them.

37 They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.

38 You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

39 Thosewho survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their sin; they will also waste away because of their fathers’ sins along with theirs.

40 “But if they will confess their sin and the sin of their fathers — their unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, and how they acted with hostility toward Me,

41 and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies — and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled,and if they will pay the penalty for their sin,

42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob. I will also remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

43 For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

44 Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them, since I am Yahweh their God.

45 For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am Yahweh.”

46 These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws theLordestablished between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

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Funding the Sanctuary

1 TheLordspoke to Moses:

2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vowto theLordthat involves the assessment of people,

3 if the assessment concerns a male from 20 to 60 years old, your assessment is 50 silver shekelsmeasured by the standard sanctuary shekel.

4 If the person is a female, your assessment is 30 shekels.

5 If the person is from five to 20 years old, your assessment for a male is 20 shekelsand for a female 10 shekels.

6 If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels,and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver.

7 If the person is 60 years or more, your assessment is 15 shekels for a male and 10 shekels for a female.

8 But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he must present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.

9 “If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to theLord, any of these he gives to theLordwill be holy.

10 He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good.But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

11 “If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to theLord, the animal must be presented before the priest.

12 The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you.

13 If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to theassessed value.

14 “When a man consecrates his house as holy to theLord, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.

15 But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to theassessed value, and it will be his.

16 “If a man consecrates to theLordany part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of 50 silver shekels for every five bushelsof barley seed.

17 If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee,the price will stand according to your assessment.

18 But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced.

19 If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to theassessed value, and the field will transfer back to him.

20 But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable.

21 When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to theLordlike a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.

22 “If a person consecrates to theLorda field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding,

23 then the priest will calculate for him the amount of theassessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to theLord.

24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from,the original owner.

25 All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, 20gerahsto the shekel.

26 “But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to theLord, because a firstborn already belongs to theLord.

27 If it is one of the unclean livestock, it must be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment.

28 “Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to theLordfrom all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to theLord.

29 No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.

30 “Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to theLord;it is holy to theLord.

31 If a man decides to redeem any part of this tenth, he must add a fifth to its value.

32 Every tenth animal from the herd or flock, which passes under the shepherd’s rod,will be holy to theLord.

33 He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy;they cannot be redeemed.”

34 These are the commands theLordgave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

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