Leviticus 27:23

23 the priest shall compute for it the proportionate assessment up to the year of jubilee, and the assessment shall be paid as of that day, a sacred donation 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 But when the field is released in the jubilee, it shall be holy to the Lord as a devoted field; it becomes the priest's holding.

22 If someone consecrates to the Lord a field that has been purchased, which is not a part of the inherited landholding,

23 the priest shall compute for it the proportionate assessment up to the year of jubilee, and the assessment shall be paid as of that day, a sacred donation to the Lord.

24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is.

25 All assessments shall be by the sanctuary shekel: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.