1    2   The Lord spoke to Moses and said, Speak to the Israelites in these words: When a man makes a special ^note vow to the Lord which requires your valuation of living persons, 3   a male between twenty and sixty years old shall be valued at fifty silver shekels, that is shekels by the sacred standard. 4    5   If it is a female, she shall be valued at thirty shekels. If the person is between five years old and twenty, the valuation shall be twenty shekels for a male and ten for a female. 6   If the person is between a month and five years old, the valuation shall be five shekels for a male and three for a female. 7   If the person is over sixty and a male, the valuation shall be fifteen shekels, but if a female, ten shekels. 8   If the man is too poor to pay the amount of your valuation, the person shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him according to the sum which the man who makes the vow can afford: the priest shall make the valuation.

9   If the vow concerns a beast such as may be offered as an offering to the Lord, then every gift shall be holy to the Lord. 10   He shall not change

The law of holiness it for another, or substitute good for bad or bad for good. But if a substitution is in fact made of one beast for another, then both the original beast and its substitute shall be holy to the Lord. 11   If the vow concerns any unclean beast such as may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, 12   then the animal shall be brought before the priest, and he shall value it whether good or bad. The priest's valuation shall be decisive; 13   in case of redemption the payment shall be increased by one fifth.

14   When a man dedicates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest shall value it whether good or bad, and the priest's valuation shall be decisive. 15   If the donor redeems his house, he shall pay the amount of the valuation increased by one fifth, and the house shall be his.

16   If a man dedicates to the Lord part of his ancestral land, you shall value it according to the amount of seed-corn it can carry, at the rate of fifty shekels of silver for a homer of barley seed. 17   If he dedicates his land from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your valuation; 18   but if he dedicates it after the year of jubilee, the priest shall estimate the price in silver according to the number of years remaining till the next year of jubilee, 19   and this shall be deducted from your valuation. If the man who dedicates his field should redeem it, he shall pay the amount of your valuation in silver, increased by one fifth, and it shall be his. 20   If he does not redeem it but sells the land to another man, it shall no longer be redeemable; 21   when the land reverts at the year of jubilee, it shall be like land that has been devoted, holy to the Lord. It shall belong to the priest as his patrimony.

22   If a man dedicates to the Lord land which he has bought, land which is not part of his ancestral land, 23   the priest shall estimate the amount of the value for the period until the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount fixed as at that day; it is holy to the Lord. 24   At the year of jubilee the land shall revert to the man from whom he bought it, 25   whose patrimony it is. Every valuation you make shall be made by the sacred standard (twenty gerahs to the shekel).

26   Notwithstanding, no man may dedicate to the Lord the first-born of a beast which in any case has to be offered as a first-born, whether an ox or a sheep. 27   It is the Lord's. If it is any unclean beast, he may redeem it at your valuation and shall add one fifth; but if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at your valuation. 28   Notwithstanding, nothing which a man devotes to the Lord irredeemably from his own property, whether man or beast or ancestral land, may be sold or redeemed. Everything so devoted is most holy to the Lord. 29   No human being thus devoted may be redeemed, but he shall be put to death.

30   Every tithe on land, whether from grain or from the fruit of a tree, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord. 31   If a man wishes to redeem

The law of holiness any of his tithe, he shall pay its value increased by one fifth. 32   Every tenth creature that passes under the counting rod shall be holy to the Lord; this applies to all tithes of cattle and sheep. 33   There shall be no inquiry whether it is good or bad, and no substitution. If any substitution is made, then both the tithe-animal and its substitute shall be forfeit as holy; it shall not be redeemed.

34   These are the commandments which the Lord gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

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