| New King James Version | NET Bible |
| 1Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, | 1The LORD spoke to Moses: |
| 2“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When a man consecrates by a vow certain persons to the LORD, according to your valuation, | 2"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of persons to the LORD, |
| 3if your valuation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary. | 3the conversion value of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel. |
| 4If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels; | 4If the person is a female, the conversion value is thirty shekels. |
| 5and if from five years old up to twenty years old, then your valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels; | 5If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the conversion value of the male is twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. |
| 6and if from a month old up to five years old, then your valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver; | 6If the person is one month old up to five years old, the conversion value of the male is five shekels of silver, and for the female the conversion value is three shekels of silver. |
| 7and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. | 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. |
| 8‘But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him. | 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; according to what the man who made the vow can afford, the priest will establish his conversion value. |
| 9‘If it is an animal that men may bring as an offering to the LORD, all that anyone gives to the LORD shall be holy. | 9"'If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the LORD, anything which he gives to the LORD from this kind of animal will be holy. |
| 10He shall not substitute it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he at all exchanges animal for animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy. | 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 animal and its substitute will be holy. |
| 11If it is an unclean animal which they do not offer as a sacrifice to the LORD, then he shall present the animal before the priest; | 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, |
| 12and the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be. | 12and the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. According to the assessed conversion value of the priest, thus it will be. |
| 13But if he wants at all to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth to your valuation. | 13If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, he must add one fifth to its conversion value. |
| 14‘And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. | 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. |
| 15If he who dedicated it wants to redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his. | 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‘If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. | 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, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver. |
| 17If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. | 17If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand, |
| 18But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation. | 18but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value. |
| 19And if he who dedicates the field ever wishes to redeem it, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall belong to him. | 19If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price and it will belong to him. |
| 20But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore; | 20If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it. |
| 21but the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a devoted field; it shall be the possession of the priest. | 21When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the LORD like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest's property. |
| 22‘And if a man dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his possession, | 22"'If he consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property, |
| 23then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he shall give your valuation on that day as a holy offering to the LORD. | 23the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the LORD. |
| 24In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession. | 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. |
| 25And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel. | 25Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel. |
| 26‘But the firstborn of the animals, which should be the LORD’s firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether it is an ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s. | 26"'Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the LORD as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the LORD. |
| 27And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation, and shall add one-fifth to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation. | 27If, however, it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value. |
| 28‘Nevertheless no devoted offering that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the LORD. | 28"'Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the LORD from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the LORD. |
| 29No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death. | 29Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death. |
| 30And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD’s. It is holy to the LORD. | 30"'Any tithe of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD. |
| 31If a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add one-fifth to it. | 31If a man redeems part of his tithe, however, he must add one fifth to it. |
| 32And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD. | 32All the tithe of herd or flock, everything which passes under the rod, the tenth one will be holy to the LORD. |
| 33He shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.’ ” | 33The owner must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, both the original animal and its substitute will be holy. It must not be redeemed.'" |
| 34These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai. | 34These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai. |
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