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1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When anyone explicitly (Cf. note at Lev. 22.21.) vows to the Lord the equivalent for a human being, 3the following scale shall apply: If it is a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the equivalent is fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary weight; 4if it is a female, the equivalent is thirty shekels. 5If the age is from five years to twenty years, the equivalent is twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. 6If the age is from one month to five years, the equivalent for a male is five shekels of silver, and the equivalent for a female is three shekels of silver. 7If the age is sixty years or over, the equivalent is fifteen shekels in the case of a male and ten shekels for a female. 8But if one cannot afford the equivalent, he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; the priest shall assess him according to what the vower can afford.

1ב

9If [the vow concerns] any animal that may be brought as an offering to the Lord, any such that may be given to the Lord shall be holy. 10One may not exchange or substitute another for it, either good for bad, or bad for good; if one does substitute one animal for another, the thing vowed and its substitute shall both be holy. 11If [the vow concerns] any unclean animal that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal shall be presented before the priest, 12and the priest shall assess it. Whether (Lit. good or bad.)high or low, (Lit. good or bad.) whatever assessment is set by the priest shall stand; 13and if he wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to its assessment.

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14If anyone consecrates his house to the Lord, the priest shall assess it. Whether (Lit. good or bad.)high or low, (Lit. good or bad.) as the priest assesses it, so it shall stand; 15and if he who has consecrated his house wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to the sum at which it was assessed, and it shall be his.

2א

A 16If anyone consecrates to the Lord any land that he holds, its assessment shall be in accordance with its seed requirement: fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed. 17If he consecrates his land as of the jubilee year, its assessment stands. 18But if he consecrates his land after the jubilee, the priest shall compute the price according to the years that are left until the jubilee year, and its assessment shall be so reduced; 19and if he who consecrated the land wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to the sum at which it was assessed, and it shall pass to him. 20But if he does not redeem the land, and the land is sold to another, it shall no longer be redeemable: 21when it is released in the jubilee, the land shall be holy to the Lord, as land proscribed; it becomes the priests holding.

2ב

A 26A firstling of animals, however, which as a firstling is the Lords, cannot be consecrated by anybody; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lords. 27But if it is of unclean animals, it may be ransomed as its assessment, with one-fifth added; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its assessment.

2ג

A 30All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are the Lords; they are holy to the Lord. 31If anyone wishes to redeem any of his tithes, he must add one-fifth to them.

B 22If he consecrates to the Lord land that he purchased, which is not land of his holding, 23the priest shall compute for him the proportionate assessment up to the jubilee year, and he shall pay the assessment as of that day, a sacred donation to the Lord. 24In the jubilee year the land shall revert to him from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is. 25All assessments shall be by the sanctuary weight, the shekel being twenty gerahs.

B 28But of all that anyone owns, be it man or beast or land of his holding, nothing that he has proscribed for the Lord may be sold or redeemed; every proscribed thing is totally consecrated to the Lord. 29No human being who has been proscribed can be ransomed: he shall be put to death.

B 32All tithes of the herd or flock of all that passes under the shepherds staff, every tenth one shall be holy to the Lord. 33He must not look out for good as against bad, or make substitution for it. If he does make substitution for it, then it and its substitute shall both be holy: it cannot be redeemed. 34These are the commandments that the Lord gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai.