Leviticus 27:1–10

Redeeming What Is the Lord’s

27 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If anyone makes a special vowu to dedicate a person to the Lord by giving the equivalent value, 3 set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekelsa of silver, according to the sanctuary shekelb;v 4 for a female, set her value at thirty shekelsc; 5 for a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekelsd w and of a female at ten shekelse; 6 for a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekelsf x of silver and that of a female at three shekelsg of silver; 7 for a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekelsh and of a female at ten shekels. 8 If anyone making the vow is too poor to payy the specified amount, the person being dedicated is to be presented to the priest, who will set the valuez according to what the one making the vow can afford.

9 “ ‘If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord,a such an animal given to the Lord becomes holy.b 10 They must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one;c if they should substitute one animal for another, both it and the substitute become holy.