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1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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And the Lord said to Moses,
2 "Tell the people of Isra'el, 'If someone makes a clearly defined vow to ADONAI to give him an amount equal to the value of a human being,
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Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.
3 the value you are to assign to a man between the ages of twenty and sixty years is to be fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds], with the sanctuary shekel being the standard,
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And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.
4 if a woman, thirty shekels.
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And if it is a female, the value will be thirty shekels.
5 If it is a child five to twenty years old, assign a value of twenty shekels for a boy and ten for a girl;
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And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.
6 if a baby one month to five years of age, five shekels for a boy and three for a girl;
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And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.
7 if a person past sixty, fifteen shekels for a man and ten for a woman.
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And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.
8 If the person is too poor to be evaluated, set him before the cohen, who will assign him a value in keeping with the means of the person who made the vow.
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But if he is poorer than the value which you have put on him, then let him be taken to the priest, and the priest will put a value on him, such as it is possible for him to give.
9 "'If the vow is for the value of an animal of the kind used when people bring an offering to ADONAI, all that a person gives of such animals to ADONAI will be holy.
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And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy.
10 He is not to exchange or replace it by substituting a good animal for a bad one or vice versa; if he does make such a substitution, both the original animal and the one replacing it will be holy.
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It may not be changed in any way, a good given for a bad, or a bad for a good; if one beast is changed for another, the two will be holy.
11 If the animal is an unclean one, such as may not be used in an offering to ADONAI, he must set it before the cohen;
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And if it is any unclean beast, of which offerings are not made to the Lord, then let him take the beast before the priest;
12 and the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by you the cohen will stand.
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And let the priest put a value on it, if it is good or bad; whatever value the priest puts on it, so will it be.
13 But if the person making the vow wishes to redeem the animal, he must add one-fifth to your valuation.
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But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.
14 "'When a person consecrates his house to be holy for ADONAI, the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by the cohen will stand.
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And if a man has given his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest will put a value on it, if it is good or bad; as the priest gives decision so will the value be fixed.
15 If the consecrator wishes to redeem his house, he must add one-fifth to the value you have set on it; and it will revert to him.
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And if the owner has a desire to get back his house, let him give a fifth more than your value, and it will be his.
16 "'If a person consecrates to ADONAI part of a field belonging to his tribe's possession, you are to value it according to its production, with five bushels of barley being valued at fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds].
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And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17 If he consecrates his field during the year of yovel, this valuation will stand.
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If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision.
18 But if he consecrates his field after the yovel, then the cohen is to calculate the price according to the years remaining till the next yovel, with a corresponding reduction from your valuation.
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But if he gives his field after the year of Jubilee, the amount of the money will be worked out by the priest in relation to the number of years till the coming year of Jubilee, and the necessary amount will be taken off your value.
19 If the one consecrating the field wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to your valuation, and the field will be set aside to revert to him.
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And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.
20 If the seller does not wish to redeem the field, or if [the treasurer for the cohanim] has already sold the field to someone else, it can no longer be redeemed.
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But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.
21 But when the purchaser has to vacate the field in the yovel, it will become holy to ADONAI, like a field unconditionally consecrated; it will belong to the cohanim.
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But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.
22 "'If he consecrates to ADONAI a field which he has bought, a field which is not part of his tribe's possession,
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And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;
23 then the cohen is to calculate its value according to the years remaining until the year of yovel; and the man will on that same day pay this amount; since it is holy to ADONAI.
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Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.
24 In the year of yovel the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, that is, to the person to whose tribal possession it belongs.
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In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.
25 "'All your valuations are to be according to the sanctuary shekel [two-fifths of an ounce], twenty gerahs to the shekel.
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And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
26 "'However, the firstborn among animals, since it is already born as a firstborn for ADONAI, no one can consecrate -neither ox nor sheep -since it belongs to ADONAI already.
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But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.
27 But if it is an unclean animal, he may redeem it at the price at which you value it and add one-fifth; or if he does not redeem it, it is to be sold at the price at which you value it.
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And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing.
28 However, nothing consecrated unconditionally which a person may consecrate to ADONAI out of all he owns - person, animal or field he possesses -is to be sold or redeemed; because everything consecrated unconditionally is especially holy to ADONAI.
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But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.
29 No person who has been sentenced to die, and thus unconditionally consecrated, can be redeemed; he must be put to death.
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Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.
30 "'All the tenth given from the land, whether from planted seed or fruit from trees, belongs to ADONAI; it is holy to ADONAI.
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And every tenth part of the land, of the seed planted, or of the fruit of trees, is holy to the Lord.
31 If someone wants to redeem any of his tenth, he must add to it one-fifth.
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And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more.
32 "'All the tenth from the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the shepherd's crook, the tenth one will be holy to ADONAI.
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And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord.
33 The owner is not to inquire whether the animal is good or bad, and he cannot exchange it; if he does exchange it, both it and the one he substituted for it will be holy; it cannot be redeemed.'"
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He may not make search to see if it is good or bad, or make any changes in it; and if he makes exchange of it for another, the two will be holy; he will not get them back again.
34 These are the mitzvot which ADONAI gave to Moshe for the people of Isra'el on Mount Sinai.
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These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.
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