Levítico 27:8

8 Se quem fizer o voto for pobre demais para pagar o valor especificado, deverá ser apresentado ao sacerdote, que estabelecerá o valor de acordo com as possibilidades do homem que fez o voto.

Levítico 27:8 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:8

But if he be poorer than thy estimation
If he is so poor that he is not able to pay the value that, is set upon him, according to the rules before given:

then he shall present himself before the priest;
that has made the estimation, according to the above directions, observing the difference of years, and of male and female; but if a person could not pay the said sums that were appointed, he might apply to the priest, and tell his case:

and the priest shall value him;
put a price upon him he is able to pay, as follows:

according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him;
he was to examine into his circumstances, and as they appeared to him he was to put a value on him, which was to be paid, but not less than, a shekel; for if he could not pay that, it was to remain as a debt until he could ^F17; and it was the ability of him that made the vow that was to be inquired into, and according to which the estimation was to be made, and not of him that was vowed: so it is said in the Misnah,

``ability is regarded in the vower, and years in the vowed, and estimations in the estimated, and according to the tithe of the estimation: ability in the vower, how? a poor man that estimates a rich man, pays the value of a poor man; and a rich man that estimates a poor man, pays the value of a rich man: if he is poor and afterwards becomes rich, or rich and afterwards poor, he pays the price of a rich man ^F18;''

but the sense which Jarchi gives is, that a priest in such a case was to judge according to what a man has, and so order him to pay, but was to leave him so as he might live, a bed and bolster, and working tools, and if he had an ass he might leave him that.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Maimon. Hilchot Eracin, c. 3. sect. 4.
F18 Misn. Eracin, c. 4. sect. 1, 2.

Levítico 27:8 In-Context

6 Se for alguém que tenha entre um mês e cinco anos de idade, atribua aos meninos o valor de sessenta gramas de prata e às meninas o valor de trinta e seis gramas de prata.

7 Se for alguém que tenha de sessenta anos para cima, atribua aos homens o valor de cento e oitenta gramas e às mulheres o valor de cento e vinte gramas.

8 Se quem fizer o voto for pobre demais para pagar o valor especificado, deverá ser apresentado ao sacerdote, que estabelecerá o valor de acordo com as possibilidades do homem que fez o voto.

9 “Se o que ele prometeu mediante voto for um animal aceitável como oferta ao SENHOR, um animal assim dado ao SENHOR torna-se santo.

10 Ele não poderá trocá-lo nem substituir um animal ruim por um bom, nem um animal bom por um ruim; caso troque um animal por outro, tanto o substituto quanto o substituído se tornarão santos.