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Holy to Yahweh

¹ Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,² "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, '^(C1)When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to Yahweh.³ 'If your valuation is of the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be ^(F1)fifty shekels of silver, according to ^(C1)the shekel of the sanctuary.⁴ 'Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.⁵ 'If it be from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels.⁶ 'But if they are from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall be ^(C1)five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.⁷ 'If they are from sixty years old and upward, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.⁸ 'But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be ^(F1)presented before the priest, and the priest shall value him; ^(C1)according to ^(F2)the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

⁹ 'Now if it is an animal of the kind which ^(F1)men can bring near as an offering to Yahweh, any such that one gives to Yahweh shall be holy.¹⁰ '^(C1)He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.¹¹ 'If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which ^(F1)men do not bring near as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall ^(F2)present the animal before the priest.¹² 'And the priest shall value it ^(F1)as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.¹³ 'But if he should ever wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of it to your valuation.

¹⁴ 'Now if a man sets his house apart as holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall value it ^(F1)as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.¹⁵ 'Yet if the one who sets it apart as holy should wish to redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his.

¹⁶ 'Again, if a man sets apart as holy to Yahweh a portion of the fields of his own possession, then your valuation shall be ^(F1)proportionate to the seed needed for it: a ^(F2)homer of barley seed at ^(F3)fifty shekels of silver.¹⁷ 'If he sets apart his field as holy from the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.¹⁸ 'If he sets apart his field as holy after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for ^(F1)him ^(F2)proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation.¹⁹ 'If the one who sets it apart as holy should ever wish to redeem the field, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it so that it may stand as his own.²⁰ 'Yet if he will not redeem the field, ^(F1)but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;²¹ and it will be that when it ^(F1)reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to Yahweh, like a field that is ^(F2)devoted; ^(C1)it shall be for the priest as his possession.²² 'Or if he sets apart as holy to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not a portion of the field of his own possession,²³ then the priest shall calculate for ^(F1)him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to Yahweh.²⁴ 'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.²⁵ 'Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be according to ^(C1)the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty ^(F1)gerahs.

²⁶ '^(C1)However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to Yahweh, no man may set it apart as holy; whether ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.²⁷ 'But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ^(F1)ransom it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

²⁸ 'Nevertheless, ^(C1)anything which a man ^(F1)devotes to Yahweh out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own possession, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything ^(F2)devoted to destruction is most holy to Yahweh.²⁹ 'No ^(F1)one who may have been ^(F2)devoted among men shall be ^(F3)ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

³⁰ 'Thus ^(C1)all the tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, belongs to Yahweh; it is holy to Yahweh.³¹ 'If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it.³² 'For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever ^(C1)passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to Yahweh.³³ '^(C1)He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; or if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"

^34 (C1)These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.