Leviticus 27:13

13 quod si dare voluerit is qui offert addet supra aestimationis quintam partem

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 animal inmundum quod immolari Domino non potest si quis voverit adducetur ante sacerdotem

12 qui diiudicans utrum bonum an malum sit statuet pretium

13 quod si dare voluerit is qui offert addet supra aestimationis quintam partem

14 homo si voverit domum suam et sanctificaverit Domino considerabit eam sacerdos utrum bona an mala sit et iuxta pretium quod ab eo fuerit constitutum venundabitur

15 sin autem ille qui voverat voluerit redimere eam dabit quintam partem aestimationis supra et habebit domum