Leviticus 27:25

25 Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

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Leviticus 27:25 in Other Translations

KJV

25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

ESV

25 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.

NLT

25 (All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)

MSG

25 The valuations will be reckoned by the Sanctuary shekel, at twenty gerahs to the shekel.

CSB

25 All your valuations will be [measured] by the standard sanctuary shekel, 20 gerahs to the shekel.

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 ) .

FOOTNOTES:

F9 Of Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 111.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Leviticus 27:25 In-Context

23 the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD.

24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

25 Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

26 “ ‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.

27 If it is one of the unclean animals, it may be bought back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If it is not redeemed, it is to be sold at its set value.

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1. S Exodus 30:13; Numbers 18:16
2. Numbers 3:47; Ezekiel 45:12

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