Leviticus 27:2
Hebrew Bible
1 The Lord spoke to Moses: 2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of a person to the Lord, 3 the conversion value of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old is 50 shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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Onkelos Leviticus 27:2
Targum
1 And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: 2 Speak with the sons of Israel, and say to them: When a man setteth apart a votive offering, (it shall be) by estimation of the life before the Lord. 3 If it be 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.
Date: 100-200 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... We have pointed out frequently that ancient biblical Hebrew varied in many ways from modern Hebrew. Chapter 27 offers interesting examples. In verse 2, the Bible's arkhekha has a final khaf that has perplexed linguists because the word ending has no modern counterpart. As a result, the experts differ in how they explain it. Another example is verse 9, where the Torah describes an object in two different phrases in the same passage, but uses the masculine form once and the feminine in the other, simply because biblical Hebrew was unconcerned about what modern Hebrew considers strict rules of gender. These phenomena caused the ancient Aramaic translators problems as well, and the Targums differ in how they translate these words. These difficulties and many others are generally obscured in English Bible translations ..."
Drazin, Israel, and Stanley M. Wagner
Onkelos on the Torah, Leviticus: Understanding the Bible Text
Gefen, 2006
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