Laws About Vows
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone 1makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons,
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then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekelsa of silver, according to the 2shekel of the sanctuary.
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If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"If the vowb is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy.
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3He 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.
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And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he shall stand the animal before the priest,
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and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.
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"When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
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6And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a 7fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
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"If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homerc of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
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If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,
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but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall 8calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
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9And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a 10fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.
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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.
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But the field, 11when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been 12devoted. The priest shall be in 13possession of it.
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15then 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 LORD.
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16In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
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Every valuation shall be according to 17the shekel of the sanctuary: 18twenty gerahsd shall make a shekel.
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"But a 19firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.
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And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, 20and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.
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"But 21no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, 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 LORD.
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22No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destructione from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
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23"Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's; it is holy to the LORD.
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If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.
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And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that 24pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the LORD.
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)