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to me, </span><span class="v2_27_3"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.3-Lev.27.7" class="v2_27_3">3-7</span>you may do so by paying the following amounts, weighed according to the official standards:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">50 pieces of silver for men</span></p><p class="li2"><span class="v2_27_3">ages 20 to 60,</span></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">and 30 pieces for women;</span></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">20 pieces of silver</span></p><p class="li2"><span class="v2_27_3">for young men ages 5 to 20,</span></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">and 10 pieces</span></p><p class="li2"><span class="v2_27_3">for young women;</span></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">15 pieces of silver for men</span></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">ages 60 and above</span></p><p class="li2"><span class="v2_27_3">and 10 pieces for women;</span></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">5 pieces of silver for boys</span></p><p class="li1"><span class="v2_27_3">ages 1 month to 5 years,</span></p><p class="li2"><span class="v2_27_3">and 3 pieces for girls.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_8"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.8" class="v2_27_8">8</span>If you have promised to give someone to me and can't afford to pay the full amount for that person's release, you will be taken to a priest, and he will decide how much you can afford.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_9"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.9" class="v2_27_9">9</span>If you promise to sacrifice an animal to me, it becomes holy, and there is no way you can set it free. </span><span class="v2_27_10"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.10" class="v2_27_10">10</span>If you try to substitute any other animal, no matter how good, for the one you promised, they will both become holy and must be sacrificed. </span><span class="v2_27_11"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.11" class="v2_27_11">11</span>Donkeys are unfit for sacrifice, so if you promise me a donkey,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.27.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> you must bring it to the priest, </span><span class="v2_27_12"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.12" class="v2_27_12">12</span>and let him determine its value. </span><span class="v2_27_13"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.13" class="v2_27_13">13</span>But if you want to buy it back, you must pay an additional 20 percent.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_14"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.14" class="v2_27_14">14</span>If you promise a house to me, a priest will set the price, whatever the condition of the house. </span><span class="v2_27_15"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.15" class="v2_27_15">15</span>But if you decide to buy it back, you must pay an additional 20 percent.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_16"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.16" class="v2_27_16">16</span>If you promise part of your family's land to me, its value must be determined by the amount of seed needed to plant the land, and the rate will be ten pieces of silver for every 20 kilograms of seed. </span><span class="v2_27_17"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.17" class="v2_27_17">17</span>If this promise is made in the Year of Celebration,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.27.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the land will be valued at the full price. </span><span class="v2_27_18"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.18" class="v2_27_18">18</span>But any time after that, the price will be figured according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration. </span><span class="v2_27_19"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.19" class="v2_27_19">19</span>If you decide to buy back the land, you must pay the price plus an additional 20 percent, </span><span class="v2_27_20"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.20" class="v2_27_20">20</span>but you cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it. </span><span class="v2_27_21"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.21" class="v2_27_21">21</span>When the Year of Celebration comes, the land becomes holy because it belongs to me, and it will be given to the priests.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_22"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.22" class="v2_27_22">22</span>If you promise me a field that you have bought, </span><span class="v2_27_23"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.23" class="v2_27_23">23</span>its value will be decided by a priest, according to the number of years before the next Year of Celebration, and the money you pay will be mine. </span><span class="v2_27_24"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.24" class="v2_27_24">24</span>However, on the next Year of Celebration, the land will go back to the family of its original owner. </span><span class="v2_27_25"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.25" class="v2_27_25">25</span>Every price will be set by the official standards.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Various Offerings</h3><h5 class="sp">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said:</h5><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_26"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.26" class="v2_27_26">26</span>All first-born animals of your flocks and herds are already mine, and so you cannot promise any of them to me. </span><span class="v2_27_27"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.27" class="v2_27_27">27</span>If you promise me a donkey,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.27.27!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> you may buy it back by adding an additional 20 percent to its value. If you don't buy it back, it can be sold to someone else for whatever a priest has said it is worth.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_28"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.28" class="v2_27_28">28</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.27.28!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Anything that you completely dedicate to me must be completely destroyed.<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.27.28!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> It cannot be bought back or sold. Every person, animal, and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me. </span><span class="v2_27_29"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.29" class="v2_27_29">29</span>In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put to death.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_30"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.30" class="v2_27_30">30</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.27.30!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Ten percent of everything you harvest is holy and belongs to me, whether it grows in your fields or on your fruit trees. </span><span class="v2_27_31"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.31" class="v2_27_31">31</span>If you want to buy back this part of your harvest, you may do so by paying what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_32"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.32" class="v2_27_32">32</span>When you count your flocks and herds, one out of ten of every newborn animal<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.27.32!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> is holy and belongs to me, </span><span class="v2_27_33"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.33" class="v2_27_33">33</span>no matter how good or bad it is. If you substitute one animal for another, both of them become holy, and neither can be bought back.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_27_34"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.27.34" class="v2_27_34">34</span>Moses was on Mount Sinai when the <span class="nd">Lord</span> gave him these laws for the people of Israel.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Donkeys … donkey: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “If you promise me an unclean animal,” which probably refers to a donkey (see Exodus 13.13; 34.20).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Year of Celebration: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 25.8-34.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">donkey: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 27.11.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.28 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">completely dedicate … completely destroyed: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In order to show that something belonged completely to the <char style="nd">Lord</char> and could not be used by anyone else, it was destroyed. This law most often applied to towns and people captured in war (see Joshua 6.16,17).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">27.32 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">one out of ten of every newborn animal: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “one out of every ten animals.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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