Leviticus 27:25

25 And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli.

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 the priest shall reckon to him the full valuation from the year of release, and he shall pay the valuation in that day holy to the Lord.

24 And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.

25 And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli.

26 And every first-born which shall be produced among thy cattle shall be the Lord's, and no man shall sanctify it: whether calf or sheep, it is the Lord's.

27 But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.