Vows, Valuations, and Dedicated Property

1 And the Lord spoke with Moses, saying: 2 Speak with the sons of Israel, and say to them: When a man sets apart a votive offering, it shall be by valuation of the life before the Lord.⁠a 3 If it is the valuation for a male from twenty years to sixty years old, the valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, in the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if the age is from five years to twenty years, the valuation for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 And if the age is from a month to five years, the valuation for a male shall be five shekels of silver, and the valuation for a female shall be three shekels of silver. 7 But if the age is sixty years and older, for a male the valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 But if he is too poor to pay his valuation, then he shall stand before the priest, and the priest shall assess him according to what the person making the vow can afford; that shall be the priest's assessment. 9 And if it is an animal from which an offering may be made before the Lord, all that he gives of it before the Lord shall be sacred; 10 he shall not alter it or change it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he will indeed change animal for animal, both it and that for which it is changed shall be sacred. 11 And if it is any unclean animal, of which none may be offered an offering before the Lord, he shall present the animal before the priest, 12 and the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; the priest's assessment shall stand. 13 And if he wants to redeem it, then he shall add the fifth to its value. 14 And when a man shall sanctify his house, to be consecrated before the Lord, the priest shall value it, whether good or bad; as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. 15 And if he who had consecrated it will redeem his house, then let him add the fifth of the price of its value to it, and it shall be his. 16 And if a man consecrates a field of his possession before the Lord, its valuation shall be according to the quantity of its seed; if sown with barley, a measure shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he consecrates his field from the year of Jubilee, it shall stand according to its value. 18 But if he consecrates his field after the year of Jubilee, the priest shall calculate the money with him according to the years which remain until the next year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the valuation. 19 But if he wants to redeem the field that he had consecrated, let him add to it a fifth of its assessed price, and it shall be confirmed to him. 20 But if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more: 21 but the field, when it is released at the Jubilee, shall be consecrated before the Lord as a devoted field; it shall belong to the priest. 22 And if a man consecrates before the Lord a field which he has bought, and which is not of the fields of his inheritance, 23 then the priest shall calculate the sum of its value until the year of Jubilee, and he shall give the price of it on that day, a holy thing before the Lord. 24 In the year of Jubilee the field shall return to him who sold it, to whom the possession of the land had belonged. 25 And every valuation shall be in the shekel of the sanctuary, with twenty maheen to the shekel. 26 Moreover, no man may consecrate the firstborn among cattle that is already a firstborn before the Lord, whether ox or sheep; it is the Lord's already. 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall redeem it according to its valuation, and add one fifth to it: or if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to its valuation. 28 Nevertheless, no devoted thing which a man shall have devoted before the Lord of all that he has of man or of beast and of the field of his possession may be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most sacred before the Lord. 29 No person devoted to death, such as a condemned criminal, shall be redeemed; he shall be put to death. 30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's; it is sacred before the Lord. 31 But if a man wants to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And every tenth animal among the oxen or sheep, whatever passes under the tithing rod, shall be sacred before the Lord. 33 He shall not choose between the good and bad, neither shall he change it. But if he exchanges it, both it and that for which it was exchanged shall be consecrated, and not be redeemed. 34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel, on the mountain of Sinai.