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¹AND Yahvah spoke to Moses, saying, ²Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When a man makes a special vow with the price of persons to Yahvah, ³Then the valuation of a male from 20 years old up to 60 years old will be 50 shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁴And if it is a female, then her valuation will be 30 shekels. ⁵And if it is from 5 years old up to 20 years old, then the valuation of the male will be 20 shekels, and for the female 10 shekels. ⁶And if it is from a month old up to 5 years old, then the valuation of males will be for the male 5 shekels of silver, and for the female 3 shekels of silver. ⁷And if it is from 60 years old and up, if it is a male, his valuation will be 15 shekels, and for the female 10 shekels. ⁸But if he is poorer than the valuation, then he will present himself before the priest, and the priest will value him; according to the ability of the person who vowed the priest will value him. ⁹And if it is an animal of which men bring an offering to Yahvah, all that any man gives of such to Yahvah will be holy. ¹⁰He will not exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he will at all exchange an animal for an animal, then both it and the one exchanged for it will be holy to Yahvah. ¹¹And if it is an unclean animal of which they do not offer a sacrifice to Yahvah, then he will present the animal before the priest; ¹²And the priest will value it, whether it be good or bad; and as the priest values it, so it will be. ¹³But if he wishes to redeem it, then he will add 1/5th part to its valuation.

¹⁴And when a man will sanctify his house to be holy to Yahvah, then the priest will value it, whether it be good or bad, and as the priest will estimate it, so it will stand. ¹⁵And if he who sanctified it will redeem his house, then he will add 1/5th of the money of its estimation to it, and it will be his. ¹⁶And if a man will sanctify to Yahvah some part of a field of his possession, then its valuation will be according to its seed; about 10 ephahs of barley seed will be valued at 50 shekels of silver. ¹⁷If he sanctifies his field from the year of jubilee, according to its estimation so it will stand. ¹⁸But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest will reckon to him the money according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and he will deduct from its valuation. ¹⁹And if the man who sanctifies the field wishes to redeem it, then he will add 1/5th of the money of the valuation to it, and it will be his. ²⁰And if he will not redeem the field, or if he sell it to another man, it will not be redeemed any longer. ²¹But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, will be holy to Yahvah, as a field devoted; its possession will be the priest's. ²²And if a man sanctifies to Yahvah a field which he has bought, which was not a field of his inheritance, ²³Then the priest will reckon its valuation until the year of jubilee; and he will give the price of its valuation in that day as a holy thing to Yahvah. ²⁴In the year of the jubilee the field will return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the inheritance of the land belonged. ²⁵And all its valuations will be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; 20 gerahs will be the shekel.

²⁶But the firstling of an animal, which should be Yahvah's firstling, no man will sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is Yahvah's. ²⁷And if it is of an unclean animal, then he will redeem it according to its valuation, and will add 1/5th part to it; or if it is not redeemed, then it will be sold according to its valuation. ²⁸But every devoted thing that a man will devote to Yahvah of all that he has, both of man and animal and of the field of his inheritance, will not be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to Yahvah. ²⁹Every devoted thing which will be devoted by men will not be redeemed, but will surely be put to death. ³⁰And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahvah's; it is holy to Yahvah. ³¹And if a man wishes to redeem some of his tithes, he will add to it 1/5th part. ³²And all the tithe of the herd or of the flock, even of whatever passes under the shepherd's staff, the 10th will be holy to Yahvah. ³³He will not inquire whether it is good or bad, nor will he exchange it; and if he exchanges it at all, then both it and its exchange will be holy; it will not be redeemed. ³⁴These are the commandments which Yahvah commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.