Verse 8
Leviticus 27:8
World English Bible, British Edition
8
But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before
the priest, and the priest shall assign a value to him. The priest shall assign a value according to his
ability to pay.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אִם מָ֥ךְ הוּא֙ מֵֽ/עֶרְכֶּ֔/ךָ וְ/הֶֽעֱמִיד/וֹ֙ לִ/פְנֵ֣י הַ/כֹּהֵ֔ן וְ/הֶעֱרִ֥יךְ אֹת֖/וֹ הַ/כֹּהֵ֑ן עַל פִּ֗י אֲשֶׁ֤ר תַּשִּׂיג֙ יַ֣ד הַ/נֹּדֵ֔ר יַעֲרִיכֶ֖/נּוּ הַ/כֹּהֵֽן
English Translation
And if he is too poor for your valuation, then he shall stand before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him according to what the one who vowed can afford; the priest shall value him.
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Chapter 27 Context
1
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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2
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates
a person to the LORD in a...
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3
your valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall
be fifty shekels of silver,...
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4
If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
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5
If the person is from five years old to twenty years old, then your valuation
shall be for a male tw...
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6
If the person is from a month old to five years old, then your valuation
shall be for a male five sh...
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7
If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then
your valuation shall be fift...
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8
But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before
the priest, and the priest shal...
9
“‘If it is an animal of which men offer an offering to the LORD,
all that any man gives of such to t...
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10
He shall not alter it, nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad
for a good. If he shall at all ex...
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11
If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering
to the LORD, then he shall se...
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12
and the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad. As the
priest evaluates it, so it shall...
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13
But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of
it to its valuation.
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14
“‘When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then
the priest shall evaluate it, whether...
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15
If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the
fifth part of the money of your...
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16
“‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the field of his possession,
then your valuation shall be a...
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17
If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your
valuation it shall stand.
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18
But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall
reckon to him the money accor...
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19
If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall
add the fifth part of the money o...
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20
If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another
man, it shall not be redeeme...
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21
but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the
LORD, as a devoted field. It sh...
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22
“‘If he dedicates a field to the LORD which he has bought, which
is not of the field of his possessi...
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23
then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up
to the Year of Jubilee; and he sh...
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24
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was
bought, even to him to whom th...
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25
All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
twenty gerahs to the shekel.
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26
“‘However the firstborn amongst animals, which belongs to the
LORD as a firstborn, no man may dedica...
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27
If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to
your valuation, and shall add to...
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28
“‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing that a man devotes to the
LORD of all that he has, whether of ma...
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29
“‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from amongst
men, shall be ransomed. He shall...
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30
“‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land
or of the fruit of the trees, is the LO...
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31
If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to
it.
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32
All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the
rod, the tenth shall be holy to...
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33
He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange
it. If he exchanges it at...
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34
These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for
the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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