Leviticus 27:2

Footnotes

1. 1 Cf. the note on . Some take this as an expression for fulfilling a vow, “to fulfill a vow” (e.g., פלא piel and ; cf. “in fulfillment of a vow”) or, alternatively, “to make a vow” or “for making a vow” ( פלא piel [II פלא]). Perhaps it refers to the making a special vow, from the verb פָלָא (pala’, “to be wonderful; to be remarkable”), cf. Milgrom, Numbers [], . B. A. Levine, Leviticus (), and , suggests that this is a special term for “setting aside a votive offering” (related to פָלָה, palah, “to set aside”). In general, the point of the expression seems to be that this sacrifice is a special gift to God that arose out of special circumstances in the life of the worshiper.
2. 2 Heb “in your valuation, persons to the Lord,” but “in your valuation” is a frozen form and, therefore, the person (“your”) does not figure into the translation (see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], ). Instead of offering a person to the Lord one could redeem that person with the appropriate amount of money delineated in the following verses (see the note on above and the explanation in Hartley, ).