Rules concerning Assessments
1Again, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When someone makes an explicit vow, he shall be valued according to your assessment of persons belonging to the LORD.
3If your assessment is of a male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your assessment shall be fifty shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary.
4Or if
5And if the person is from five years even to twenty years old, then your assessment for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.
6But if the person is from a month even up to five years old, then your assessment shall be five shekels of silver for a male, and for a female your assessment shall be three shekels of silver.
7If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.
8But if he is poorer than your assessment, then he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; according to
9‘Now if it is an animal of the kind that
10He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.
11If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which
12And the priest shall assess it
13But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.
14‘Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall assess it
15Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.
16‘Again, if someone consecrates to the LORD part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be
17If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your assessment it shall stand.
18If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for
19If the one who consecrates it should ever want to redeem the field, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may belong to him.
20Yet if he does not redeem the field,
21and when it
22Or if he consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,
23then the priest shall calculate for
24In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.
25Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
26‘However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no one may consecrate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’S.
27But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall
28‘Nevertheless,
29No
30‘Now all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’S; it is holy to the LORD.
31If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it.
32For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.
33He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; yet if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.’ ”
34These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.