Leviticus 27:23

23 The priest must figure out the field's value until the jubilee year. You will pay its value on that day as something holy, belonging to the LORD.

Leviticus 27:23 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:23

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation, [even] unto the year of jubilee
The priest was to estimate the field of purchase sanctified, and set a price upon it according to the best of his judgment, and give it to the person that sanctified it, or whoever would redeem it; and this estimate was made, according to the number of years there were to the year of jubilee:

and he shall give thine estimation in that day;
the price set upon the field by the priest immediately, either the sanctifier, but without adding the fifth part, as in ( Leviticus 27:19 ) ; so Maimonides ^F7 observes, or any other purchaser:

[as] a holy thing unto the Lord;
to sacred uses, as the repairs of the temple to which the purchase money was appropriated.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Hilchot Eracin, c. 4. sect. 26.

Leviticus 27:23 In-Context

21 When the field is released in the jubilee year, it will be holy like a field claimed by the LORD. It will become the property of the priest.

22 You may give a field you bought (not one that was a part of your family property) to the LORD as something holy.

23 The priest must figure out the field's value until the jubilee year. You will pay its value on that day as something holy, belonging to the LORD.

24 In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property.

25 "All values will be set using the standard weight of the holy place.