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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Leviticus 27 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/27.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/27-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Leviticus 27</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/26.htm" title="Leviticus 26">◄</a> Leviticus 27 <a href="../numbers/1.htm" title="Numbers 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/leviticus/27.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Laws About Vows</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> involving the valuation of persons, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams">a</a></sup></span> of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“If the vow<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew it">b</a></sup></span> is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, all of it that he gives to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“If a man dedicates to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters">c</a></sup></span> of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If he dedicates to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram">d</a></sup></span> shall make a shekel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)">e</a></sup></span> from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s; it is holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/27-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>These are the commandments that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">shekel</i> was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Hebrew <i>it</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> A <i class="catch-word">homer</i> was about 6 bushels or 220 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">gerah</i> was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">29</span> That is, set apart (<span class="catch-word">devoted</span>) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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