Leviticus 27:13

13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to your estimation.

Leviticus 27:13 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:13

But if he will at all redeem it
The owner of it, or he that has devoted it, if he is determined to have it again at any rate:

then he shall add a fifth [part] thereof unto thy estimation;
he shall give the full price for it, as rated by the priest, and for which it might be sold to another man, and a fifth part of the value of it besides; this was done that the full price might be paid for it, the priest not knowing, as it might be, the worth of it so well as the owner; and that the value of consecrated things might be kept to, and to make men careful how and what they devoted, since, though redeemable, they were obliged to pay a large price for them.

Leviticus 27:13 In-Context

11 If it be any unclean animal, of which they do not offer an offering to the LORD, then he shall set the animal before the Kohen;

12 and the Kohen shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as you the Kohen value it, so shall it be.

13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to your estimation.

14 When a man shall sanctify his house to be holy to the LORD, then the Kohen shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the Kohen shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

15 If he who sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your estimation to it, and it shall be his.