Leviticus 27:13

13 (for) which price, if he that offereth (it) will not give (it), he shall add the fifth part over the value (to buy it back).

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 Soothly if any man avoweth an unclean beast, that may not be offered to the Lord, it shall be brought before the priest,

12 and the priest shall deem whether it is good either evil (and the priest shall decide whether it is good or bad), and he shall set the price;

13 (for) which price, if he that offereth (it) will not give (it), he shall add the fifth part over the value (to buy it back).

14 If a man avoweth his house, and halloweth it to the Lord, the priest shall behold, whether it is good either evil, and by the price which is ordained of him, it shall be sold; (If a man voweth his house, and dedicateth it to the Lord, the priest shall look at it, and decide if it is good or bad, that is, he shall determine its value, and it shall be sold for the price which is ordained by him;)

15 soothly if he that avowed will again-buy it, he shall give the fifth part of the value above, and he shall have the house. (and if he who vowed it will buy it back, he shall add the fifth part above its value, and then he shall have the house.)