⁸“ ‘But suppose the one who makes the special promise is too poor to pay the required amount. Then he must bring to the priest the person who will be set free. The priest will decide the right value for that person. It will be based on how much the one who makes the promise can afford.

⁹“ ‘Suppose what he promised is an animal that I will accept as an offering. Then the animal that is given to me becomes holy. ¹⁰The one who makes the promise must not trade it. He must not trade a good animal for a bad one. And he must not trade a bad animal for a good one. Suppose he chooses one animal instead of another. Then both animals become holy.

¹¹“ ‘Suppose the animal he promised is not “clean.” Suppose I will not accept it as an offering. Then the animal must be brought to the priest. ¹²He will decide whether it is good or bad. Its value will be what he decides it will be. ¹³Suppose the owner wants to buy the animal back. Then he must add a fifth to its cost.

¹⁴“ ‘Suppose a man sets his house apart as something that is holy to me. Then the priest will decide whether it is good or bad. Its value will remain what he decides it will be. ¹⁵Suppose the man sets his house apart. And suppose later he wants to buy it back. Then he must add a fifth to its value. The house will belong to him again.

¹⁶“ ‘Suppose a man sets apart a piece of his family’s land to me. Then its value must be decided based on the number of seeds that are required to grow a full crop on it. That value will be 20 ounces of silver for every six bushels of barley seeds.

¹⁷“ ‘Suppose he sets his field apart during the Year of Jubilee. Then the value that has been decided will not be changed. ¹⁸But suppose he sets his field apart after the Year of Jubilee. Then the priest will decide its value based on the number of years that are left until the next Year of Jubilee. The value that was decided will be reduced.

¹⁹“ ‘Suppose the man who sets his field apart wants to buy it back. Then he must add a fifth to its value. The field will belong to him again. ²⁰But suppose he does not buy the field back. Instead, suppose he sells it to someone else. Then he can never buy it back.

²¹“ ‘When the field is set free in the Year of Jubilee, it will become holy. It will be like a field that is set apart to me. It will become the property of the priests.

²²“ ‘Suppose a man sets apart to me a field he has bought. And suppose it is not part of his family’s land. ²³Then the priest will decide its value based on the number of years that are left until the Year of Jubilee. The man must pay that value on the day it is decided. The money is holy. It is set apart for me.

²⁴“ ‘In the Year of Jubilee the field will go back to the person the man bought it from. That person is the one who had owned the land before.

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