Chapter Book
Loading
Change Translation
Loading...
  • Recent Translations
  • All Translations

Leviticus 27:14-25

Share

Settings

14 "When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.
15 1And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a 2fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.
16 "If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer[a] of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,
18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall 3calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
19 4And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a 5fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.
20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.
21 But the field, 6when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been 7devoted. The priest shall be in 8possession of it.
22 If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, 9which is not a part of his possession,
23 10then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.
24 11In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
25 Every valuation shall be according to 12the shekel of the sanctuary: 13twenty gerahs[b] shall make a shekel.
Read Chapter Compare

Leviticus 27:14-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO LEVEITICUS 27

This chapter contains various laws concerning vows made unto the Lord, whether of persons whose estimation was to be made by the priest, according to their age, sex, and condition, Le 26:1-8; or of beasts, clean and unclean, good or bad, Le 26:9-13; or of houses, fields, and lands, the estimation of which was to be according to its seed, and the time of its being set apart, whether from or after the year of jubilee, and the number of years to it, Le 26:14-25; with this exception to the above laws, that no firstling of the Lord's might be sanctified, and if an unclean beast it might be redeemed, but nothing devoted to the Lord, whether of man, beast, or field, might be sold or redeemed, Le 26:26-29; and the chapter is concluded with some laws concerning the redemption or change of tithes, what might or what might not be redeemed or changed, Le 26:30-34;

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
  • [b]. A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.