Leviticus 27:25

25 And every proper value of yours shall be in the sanctuary's shekel--the shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

Leviticus 27:25 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:25

And all thy estimation shall be according to the shekel of the
sanctuary
The shekel kept in the sanctuary, which was the standard of all shekels; not that there was a shekel in the sanctuary different from the common one; for every shekel ought to have been as that, of the full weight and worth of it; and the estimation was to be according to such a shekel, and the money paid in such, even in full weight:

twenty gerahs shall be the shekel;
which the Targum of Jonathan calls "meahs" or "oboli", one of which was about three halfpence of our money, scarce so much, and weighed near eleven grains, as Bishop Cumberland ^F9 has calculated: see ( Ezekiel 45:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Of Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 111.

Leviticus 27:25 In-Context

23 then the priest shall calculate for him the {amount} of your proper value until the year of the Jubilee, and he shall give your proper value on that day [as] a holy object for Yahweh.

24 In the Year of the Jubilee the field shall return to the one who bought it from him, to the one whose property the land [is].

25 And every proper value of yours shall be in the sanctuary's shekel--the shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

26 " 'However, a man shall not consecrate a firstborn among livestock, which belongs as firstborn to Yahweh; whether an ox {or} small livestock, it is for Yahweh.

27 And if [it is] among the unclean animals, then he shall ransom [it] according to your proper value, and he shall add a fifth of its [value] onto it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your proper value.