^27:7If the person is from sixty years old and older, if he is a male the conversion value is fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. ^27:8If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value;⁷ according to what the man who made the vow can afford,⁸ the priest will establish his conversion value.

Redemption of Vowed Animals

^27:9“ ‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented⁹ to the Lord, anything which he gives to the Lord from this kind of animal¹⁰ will be holy. ^27:10He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal¹¹ and its substitute will be holy. ^27:11If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the Lord, then he must stand the animal before the priest, ^27:12and the priest will establish its conversion value,¹² whether good or bad. According to the assessed conversion value of the priest, thus it will be. ^27:13If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal,¹³ he must add one fifth to¹⁴ its conversion value.

Redemption of Vowed Houses

^27:14“ ‘If a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. Just as the priest establishes its conversion value, thus it will stand.¹⁵^27:15If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.¹⁶

Redemption of Vowed Fields

^27:16“ ‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it,¹⁷ a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.¹⁸^27:17If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year,¹⁹ the conversion value will stand, ^27:18but if²⁰ he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price²¹ for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value. ^27:19If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it,²² he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price²³ and it will belong to him.²⁴^27:20If he does not redeem the field, but sells²⁵ the field to someone else, he may never redeem it. ^27:21When it reverts²⁶ in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field;²⁷ it will become the priest’s property.²⁸

^27:22“ ‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased,²⁹ which is not part of his own landed property, ^27:23the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay³⁰ the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord. ^27:24In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

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Footnotes

7 Heb “and the priest shall cause him to be valued.”
8 Heb “on the mouth which the hand of the one who vowed reaches.”
9 Heb “which they may present from it an offering.” The plural active verb is sometimes best rendered in the passive ( §144.f, g). Some medieval Hebrew , , a of the , and the all have the singular verb instead (cf. similarly v. 11).
10 Heb “from it.” The masculine suffix “it” here is used for the feminine in the , but one medieval Hebrew , some of , the , and the have the feminine. The referent (this kind of animal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
11 Heb “it and its substitute.” The referent (the original animal offered) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 Heb “and the priest shall cause it to be valued.” See the note on v. above.
13 Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems it [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see §113.p. The referent of “he” (the person who made the vow) and “it” (the animal) have both been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 Heb “on,” meaning “on top of, in addition to” (likewise in v. 15).
15 The expression “it shall stand” may be a technical term for “it shall be legally valid”; cf. “assessment will be final.”
16 Heb “and it shall be to him.”
17 Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”
18 Heb “seed of a homer of barley in fifty shekels of silver.”
19 Heb “from the year of the jubilee.” For the meaning of “jubilee,” see the note on above.
20 Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.
21 Heb “the silver.”
22 Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems [finite verb] the field, the one who consecrated it.” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see §113.p.
23 Heb “the silver of the conversion value.”
24 Heb “and it shall rise to him.” See קום 7 for the rendering offered here, but see also the note on the end of v. above (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], , ).
25 Heb “and if he sells.”
26 Heb “When it goes out” (cf. Lev 25:25–34).
27 Heb “like the field of the permanent dedication.” The Hebrew word חֵרֶם (kherem) is a much discussed term. In this and the following verses it refers in a general way to the fact that something is permanently devoted to the Lord and therefore cannot be redeemed (cf. v. 20b). See J. A. Naudé, 2:; N. Lohfink, 5:180–99, esp. pp. 184, 188, and 198–99; and the numerous explanations in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (), .
28 Heb “to the priest it shall be his property.”
29 Heb “his field of purchase,” which is to be distinguished from his own ancestral “landed property” (cf. v. 16 above).
30 Heb “give” (so , , , ).