Dual PanelGifts Promised to the Lord
1The LORD said to Moses,
2“Tell the Israelites: You might promise to give someone to the LORD as a servant. The priest must set a price for that person.
3The price for a man from 20 to 60 years old is 50 shekels of silver. (You must use the official measure for the silver.)
4The price for a woman who is 20 to 60 years old is 30 shekels.
5The price for a man from 5 to 20 years old is 20 shekels. For a woman the price is 10 shekels.
6The price for a boy from one month to five years old is 5 shekels. For a girl, the price is 3 shekels.
7The price for a man who is 60 years old or older is 15 shekels. The price for a woman is 10 shekels.
8“If anyone is too poor to pay the price, bring that person to the priest. The priest will decide how much money the person can afford to pay.
Other Gifts to the Lord
9“You might promise to give an animal to the Lord. If it is a clean animal—one that is acceptable as an offering to the LORD—then the animal you bring will become holy.
10You must not put any other animal in its place. Don’t try to trade a good animal for a bad one or a bad animal for a good one. If you try to change animals, both animals will become holy—they will both belong to the Lord.
11“The animal you promised might be one that is not acceptable as an offering to the LORD. If you promised one of these unclean animals, you must bring it to the priest.
12The priest will decide a price for that animal. The price will be whatever the priest decides, whether good or bad.
13If you want to buy back the animal, then you must add one-fifth to the price.
The Value of Property
14“If you dedicate your house as holy to the LORD, the priest must decide its price. It doesn’t make any difference if the house is good or bad. If the priest decides on a price, that is the price for the house.
15But if you want to get the house back, you must add one-fifth to the price. Then you will get the house back.
The Value of Property
16“You might dedicate a field to the LORD. The value of this field will depend on how much seed is needed to plant it. It will be 50 shekels of silver for each homer of barley seed.
17If you give your field to God during the year of Jubilee, then its value will be whatever the priest decides.
18But if you give your field after the Jubilee, the priest must decide its exact price. He must count the number of years to the next year of Jubilee and use that number to decide the price.
19If you want to buy the field back, you must add one-fifth to that price. Then you will get the field back.
20If you don’t buy the field back and the land is sold to someone else, you cannot get the land back.
21If you don’t buy the land back by the year of Jubilee, the field will remain holy to the LORD—it will belong to the priest forever. It will be treated like any other thing that was given completely to the Lord.
22“If you dedicate a field to the LORD that you had bought, and it is not a part of your family’s property,
23then the priest must count the years to the year of Jubilee and decide the price for the land. Then that land will belong to the LORD.
24At the year of Jubilee, the land will go to the family that originally owned the land.
25“You must use the official measure in paying these prices. The shekel by that measure weighs 20 gerahs.
The Value of Animals
26“You can give cattle and sheep as special gifts to the LORD. But if the animal is the firstborn, it already belongs to the LORD. So you cannot give these animals as special gifts.
27If the firstborn animal is an unclean animal, you must buy back that animal. The priest will decide the price of the animal, and you must add one-fifth to that price. If you don’t buy that animal back, the priest will sell the animal for whatever price he decides.
Special Gifts
28“There is a special kind of gift that people give to the LORD. It belongs only to him, and it cannot be bought back or sold. This gift belongs to the LORD. This type of gift includes people, animals, and fields from the family property.
29If this gift is a person, that person cannot be bought back. That person must be killed.
30“A tenth of all crops belongs to the LORD. This means the crops from fields and the fruit from trees—a tenth belongs to the LORD.
31So if you want to get back your tenth, you must add one-fifth to its price and then buy it back.
32“The priests will take every tenth animal from a person’s cattle or sheep. Every tenth animal will belong to the LORD.
33The owner should not worry if the chosen animal is good or bad or trade it for another animal. If this happens, then both animals will belong to the LORD. They cannot be bought back.”
34These are the commands that the LORD gave Moses at Mount Sinai for the Israelites.