Leviticus 27

Chapter 27

27:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a ^a singular vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD by ^b thy estimation.

(a) As of his son or daughter.
(b) Who art the priest.

27:3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty ^c shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

(c) Read the value of the shekel in ( Exodus 30:13 ).

27:6 And if [it be] from a ^d month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver.

(d) He speaks of those vows by which the fathers dedicated their children to God who were not of such force; but they might be redeemed from them.

27:8 But if he be poorer ^e than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

(e) If he is not able to pay according to your estimate.

27:9 And if [it be] a ^f beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

(f) Which is clean, ( Leviticus 11:2 ).

27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be ^g holy.

(g) That is, consecrate to the Lord.

27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an ⁱ homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.

(i) Homer is a measure containing ten ephahs, read of an ephah in ( Exodus 16:16 Exodus 16:36 ).

27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have ^k sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

(k) For their own necessity or godly uses.

27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be ^l holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priests.

(l) That is, who dedicate to the Lord with a curse to him that turns it to his private use, ( Numbers 21:2 ; Deuteronomy 13:15 ; Joshua 9:17 ).

27:23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give ^m thine estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD.

(m) The priests evaluation.

27:26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORDS firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it be] ox, or sheep: it [is] the ⁿ LORDS.

(n) It was the Lords already.

27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; [but] shall surely be ^o put to death.

(o) It shall remain without redemption.

27:31 And if a man will at all redeem [ought] of his tithes, he shall add thereto the ^p fifth [part] thereof.

(p) Besides the value of the thing itself.

27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, [even] of whatsoever passeth under the ^q rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.

(q) All that which is numbered: that is, every tenth as he falls by tale without exception or respect.