Leviticus 21-27

Leviticus


Chapters 21-27



21[1-6] Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell the priests, the sons of Aaron, 'A priest won’t make themselves unfit for those who die among the people; except for their near relatives because a mother, father, son, daughter, brother, and woman who’s never had sex sister who’s near to them, who’s had no husband; for her they may make themselves unfit. Don’t let them make themselves unfit, being a leader among the people, to bring disrespect on themselves. They won’t cut their hair, nor cut off the ends of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their skin. They’ll be holy to their God, and not bring disrespect on the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God; so they’ll be holy.

[7-15] They won’t marry a woman who’s a prostitute, or unfit; nor will they marry a woman divorced from her husband because they’re holy to God. So you’ll set them apart because they offer the bread of God. They’ll be holy to you because I Yahweh, who sets you apart, am holy. If a daughter of any priest brings disrespect on herself by acting like a prostitute, she brings disrespect on her father, so she’ll be burned with fire. Whoever is the high priest among them, on whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that’s been dedicated to put on the clothes, won’t let the hair of their head hang loose, nor tear their clothes in mourning; nor go in to see any dead body, nor make themselves unfit for their father, or mother; nor go out of the place of worship, nor bring disrespect on the place of worship of God; for the crown of the anointing oil of God is on them. I am Yahweh. They’ll take a wife who’s never had sex. Don’t let them marry a death survivor, or a divorced woman, or a woman who’s unfit, or a prostitute: but let them take a woman who’s never had sex from their own people as a wife. Don’t let them bring disrespect on their children among the people because I am Yahweh who sets them apart.’”

[16-24] Yahweh told Moses, “Say to Aaron, 'None of your children throughout their generations who has a fault, may come to offer the bread of your God. Whoever has a fault, don’t let them come near, whether blind, or lame, or whoever has a scarred face, or any unusual growth, or someone who has a broken leg or hand, or hunchbacked, or a midget, or one who’s cross eyed, or has an itching disease, or scabs, or who has something wrong with his testicles; No one of the people of Aaron the priest, who has a fault, will come to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since they have a fault, don’t let them come to offer the bread of God. They’ll eat the bread of God, both of the most holy, and of the holy, but don’t let them go behind the veil, nor come near the altar, because they have a fault; so that they won’t bring disrespect on My places of worship, for I am Yahweh who sets them apart.'” So Moses told Aaron, and his sons, and all the people of Israel.

22[1-3] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell Aaron and his sons to separate themselves from the holy things of the people of Israel, and not to bring disrespect on My holy name by what they dedicate to Me. I am Yahweh. Tell them, 'If anyone of all your children throughout your generations comes to the holy things, which the people of Israel offer to Yahweh, being unfit, that soul will be cut off from Me. I am Yahweh.

[4-8] Don’t let any of the people of Aaron who is a leper or has a flow from a sexually transmitted disease eat of the holy things, until they’re fit. Whoever touches anything that’s made unfit by the dead, or someone whose semen goes from them; or whoever touches any small animal that runs around that makes them unfit, or touches someone else who makes them unfit, whatever unfitness they have; the person that touches any such thing won’t be fit until evening, and won’t eat of the holy things, until they take a bath. When the sun is down, they’ll be fit; and then they’ll eat of the holy things, because it’s their food. Whatever dies naturally, or is killed by animals, don’t let them eat, making themselves unfit by it. I am Yahweh.

[9-16] So they’ll keep My rules, or they’ll carry sin and die in it, if they bring disrespect on it. I am Yahweh who sets them apart. No stranger will eat of whatever is holy, whether a foreigner living with the priests, or a paid worker, they won’t eat anything holy. But anyone a priest adopts, and those who are born in his family, will eat of the bread. If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she won’t eat of the offerings of the holy things. But if a priest's daughter is a death survivor, or divorced, and has no child, and has go backed to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread, but no stranger will eat any of it. If someone eats something holy unknowingly, then they’ll replace it and add a fifth of its value to it, and will give the holy thing to the priest. The priests won’t bring disrespect on the holy things of the people of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh, and so cause them to carry the guilt of sin, when they eat their holy things because I am Yahweh who sets apart them.'”

[17-25] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell Aaron, and his sons, and all the people of Israel, 'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who gives an offering, whether it be any of their promises, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering; that they may be accepted, will offer a male without anything wrong with it, of the cattle, of the sheep, or of the goats. But don’t offer whatever has a fault, because it won’t be accepted by you. Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to keep a promise, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect and without a fault to be accepted by you. Don’t offer anything blind, crippled, hurt, having a running sore, or an itch, or a skin disease to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh. Either a bull or a lamb that has something wrong with it, may be offered for a freewill offering; but it won’t be accepted to keep a promise. Don’t offer whatever has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut to Yahweh; nor will you do this (to your animals) in your land. Nor will you take an offering to God of any of these from a foreigner; because they’re damaged. There is a fault in them. They won’t be accepted by you.'”

[26-30] Yahweh told Moses, “When a cow, sheep, or goat is born, then it will stay with its mother for seven days; and from the eighth day on it will be accepted to give as an offering of fire to Yahweh. Don’t kill a cow or female sheep and its young both on the same day. When you make a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, offer it in a way it will be accepted. It will be eaten in one day, leaving none of it until the morning. I am Yahweh.

[31-33] So you’ll keep My laws, and do them. I am Yahweh. Don’t bring disrespect on My holy name, but I’ll be made holy among the people of Israel. I am Yahweh who makes you holy, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am Yahweh.”

23[1-3] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the people of Israel, 'The set feasts of Yahweh, which you’ll announce to be a sacred assembly, are My set feasts. Work will be done for six days but the seventh day is a Seventh Day of peaceful rest, with a sacred assembly, so you’ll do no kind of work. It’s a Seventh Day to Yahweh in all your homes.

[4-8] These are the set feasts of Yahweh, a sacred assembly, which you’ll announce in their set time. On the fourteenth day of the first month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover. On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of bread made without yeast to Yahweh. Seven days you’ll eat bread made without yeast. On the first day you’ll have a sacred assembly. You’ll do no regular work, but you’ll bring an offering of fire to Yahweh for seven days. In the seventh day is a sacred assembly, so you’ll do no regular work.'”

[9-14] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the people of Israel, 'When you’ve come into the land which I give to you, and gather the harvest, then you’ll bring the first bundle of your harvest to the priest, who will wave the bundle before Yahweh on the day after the Seventh Day, to be accepted for you. On the day when you wave the bundle, you’ll offer a year old male lamb without anything wrong with it for a burnt offering to Yahweh. The grain offering with it will be two 3 quart jars of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh; and the drink offering with it will be of wine, 1/4th of a 5 quart jar. You’ll eat no bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until the day you bring the offering of your God. This is a law forever throughout your generations in all your homes.

[15-22] You’ll count seven Seventh Days from the day after the Seventh Day, when you brought the bundle of the wave offering to the day after the seventh Seventh Day, which will be fifty days; and you’ll offer a new grain offering to Yahweh. You’ll bring out of your homes two loaves of bread for a wave offering made of two 3 quarts jars of fine flour. They’ll be baked with yeast, being the first of your grain harvest to give to Yahweh. You’ll give with the bread seven lambs, a year old, without anything wrong with them, one young bull, and two rams. They’ll be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering, and their drink offerings, an offering of fire that smells good to Yahweh. You’ll offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest will wave them with the bread of the first of your harvests for a wave offering to Yahweh, with the two lambs. They’ll be holy to Yahweh for the priest. You’ll announce on the same day that there will be a sacred assembly for you, so you’ll do no regular work. This is a law forever in all your homes throughout your generations. When you gather the harvest of your land, don’t totally gather the corners of your field, nor will you gather what has fallen on the ground of your harvest: you’ll leave it for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.'”

[23-25] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the people of Israel, ' On the first day of the seventh month will be a peaceful rest to you, a holiday remembered by the blowing of trumpets, with a sacred assembly. You’ll do no regular work; and you’ll bring an offering of fire to Yahweh.'”

[26-32] Yahweh told Moses, “But on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day for sins to be covered: it will be a sacred assembly to you, and you’ll be sorry for your sins; and you’ll bring an offering of fire to Yahweh. You’ll do no kind of work in that day because it’s a day for sins to be covered, to cover your sins for you before Yahweh your God. Whoever won’t keep from doing what they want to do in that day will be cut off from the people. Whoever does any kind of work in that day, I’ll destroy from among the people. You’ll do no kind of work: It’s a law forever throughout your generations in all your homes. It will be a Seventh Day of peaceful rest for you, and you won’t do what you want to on that day. At evening, on the ninth day of the month, from one night to the next, this Seventh Day will be kept.”

[33-36] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the people of Israel, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh. On the first day will be a sacred assembly, so you’ll do no regular work. Seven days you’ll bring an offering of fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day will be a sacred assembly to you; and you’ll bring an offering of fire to Yahweh. It’s a peaceful assembly, so you’ll do no regular work.

[37-44] These are the set feasts of Yahweh, which you’ll announce to be a sacred assembly, to bring an offering of fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a grain offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day; besides the Seventh Days of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your promises, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh. So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you’ve gathered in the fruits of the land, you’ll keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day will be a peaceful rest, and on the eighth day will be a peaceful rest. On the first day you’ll take the fruit of the good trees, branches of palm trees, and branches of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you’ll be happy before Yahweh your God for seven days. You’ll keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days a year: It’s a law forever throughout your generations; you’ll keep it in the seventh month. You’ll live in shelters made of branches seven days. All who are native-born in Israel will live in shelters made of branches, so that your children may know that I made the people of Israel live in shelters made of branches, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'” So Moses told the people of Israel the set feasts of Yahweh.

24[1-4] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the people of Israel to bring you pure beaten olive oil for the light of the lamp to burn continually. Outside of the veil of the Law, in the Meeting Place, Aaron will keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually. It will be a law forever throughout your generations. Aaron will keep in order the lamps on the pure gold lampstand to Yahweh continually.

[5-9] Take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two 3 quart jars will be in one cake. Set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. Put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be a reminder on the bread for an offering of fire to Yahweh. Every Seventh Day you’ll set it in order before Yahweh continually. It’s done for the people of Israel for an everlasting promise. It’s for Aaron and his sons; and they’ll eat it in a holy place because it’s the most holy of all the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by law forever.”

[10-12] The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and someone of Israel argued in the camp. The son of the Israelite woman disrespected the Name of God, and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. They put him under guard, until Yahweh told them what to do.

[13-23] Yahweh told Moses, “Bring out of the camp the one who cursed; and let all who heard him put their hands on his head, and let all the people kill him with stones. Tell the people of Israel, 'Whoever curses God will be at fault. Whoever disrespects the name of Yahweh, will without a doubt be put to death; all the people will without a doubt stone them. The foreigner as well as the native-born will be put to death when they disrespect the Name of God. Whoever kills anyone will without a doubt be put to death. Whoever kills an animal will make it good, life for life. If anyone injures others; it’ll be done to them as they have done, break for break, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as they have hurt someone, so will it be done to them. Whoever kills an animal will make it good; and whoever kills someone will be put to death. You’ll have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born because I am Yahweh your God.'” So Moses told the people of Israel; and they brought the one who had cursed out of the camp, and killed him with stones. The people of Israel did as Yahweh told Moses.

25[1-7] Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, “Tell the people of Israel, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land will keep a Seventh Day to Yahweh. Six years you’ll plant your field, and six years you’ll work your garden, and gather what grows; but in the seventh year there will be a Seventh Day of peaceful rest for the land, a Seventh Day to Yahweh. Don’t plant your field or work your garden. Don’t gather what grows by itself in your harvest, or the grapes of your untrimmed vine. It will be a year of peaceful rest for the land. The Seventh Day of the land will be for food for you; for yourself, your male and female workers, your paid workers, and for strangers, who live as foreigners with you. Everything that grows will be for food for your animals and for the animals that are in your land.

[8-12] Count off seven Seventh Days of years, seven times seven years; and there will be to you the days of seven Seventh Days of years, which is forty-nine years. Then you’ll sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Covering Sin you’ll sound the trumpet throughout all your land. You’ll make the fiftieth year holy, and announce freedom throughout the land to all its people. It will be a jubilee to you; and each of you will go back to your own land, and to your own family. That fiftieth year will be a jubilee to you. Don’t plant, nor gather what grows by itself, nor gather from the untrimmed vines in it. It’s a jubilee, so it will be holy to you. You’ll eat what grows out of the field.

[13-17] In this Year of Jubilee each of you will go back to your own land. If you sell anything to others, or buy from others, don’t wrong one another. You’ll buy from others counting from the number of years after the Jubilee. A person will sell to you counting the number of years of the crops. By the number of years you’ll make the price more, or less, because they’re selling the number of crops to you. Don’t wrong one another; but fear the judgment of your God because I am Yahweh your God.

[18-22] So you’ll keep My laws and rules and do them; and you’ll live in the land in safety. The land will give its food, and you’ll eat your fill, and live in safety. If you say, “What will we eat the seventh year? Look, we won’t plant, nor gather in what grows;” then I’ll send My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will make enough food for the three years. You’ll plant the eighth year, and eat its crops, and the old store; you’ll eat the old store until the ninth year, until its crops come in.

[23-28] The land won’t be sold forever, for the land is mine; and you are strangers and live as foreigners with Me. In all the land that you own you’ll allow the land to be bought back. If your family member becomes poor, and sells what’s owned, then the next nearest kin will come and buy back whatever has been sold. If someone has no one to buy it back, and becomes wealthy and has enough to buy it back; then let them count the years since the sale of it, and give back what’s left over to the one to whom it was sold; and you’ll go back to your land. But if they aren't able to get it back for themselves, then what they have sold will stay with whoever bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it will be given up, and you’ll go back to your land.

[29-31] If someone sells a house in a walled city, then you may buy back it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year you’ll have the right to buy it back. If it’s not bought back within the space of a full year, then a house that’s in a walled city will be made sure forever to whoever bought it, throughout your generations. It won’t be given up in the Jubilee. But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them will be counted with the fields of the country. They may be bought back, and they’ll be given up in the Jubilee.

[32-34] But the cities of the Levites, the houses they own in the cities, the Levites may buy back at any time. The Levites may buy back the house they owned that was sold, and the city they owned, and it will be given up in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their own among the people of Israel. But the fields of the open land of their cities won’t be sold; for it’s their own forever.

[35-43] “'If your family member has become poor, and you can't help them keep their home; then you’ll help them as you would a stranger or a foreigner and they’ll live with you. Take no interest from them or profit, but fear the judgment of your God; that your family member may live among you. Don’t lend them your money at interest, nor give them your food for profit. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. If your family member has grown poor among you, and sells themselves to you; Don’t make them work as a servant. They’ll be as a paid worker, and as a foreigner with you; They’ll serve with you until the Year of Jubilee and then go out from you, they and their children with them, and will go back to their own family, and to their own land. For they’re My workers, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They won’t be sold as servants. Don’t rule over them with cruelty, but fear the judgment of your God.

[44-46] As for your male and female servants, whom you may have; you may buy male and female servants of the nations that are around you. You may also buy the children of strangers who live among you and of their families who are with you, which they’ve had in your land; and they’ll be yours. You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, for their own; you may take them as your servants forever, but don’t rule over your own people, the people of Israel, with cruelty.

[47-] If a stranger or foreigner who lives with you becomes rich, and your family member beside them becomes poor, and sells themselves to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family; they may be bought back after they’re sold. One of your family members may buy them back; or anyone who’s a close relative to them of their family may buy them back; or if they have grown rich, they may buy themselves back. Count with whoever bought them from the year that they sold themselves to them to the Year of Jubilee: and the sale price will be by the number of years; by the time of a paid worker they’ll be with them.

[51-55] If there are still many years left, they’ll give back the sale price out of the money that they were bought for. If there’s only a few years to the year of jubilee, then you’ll count them; by the years of work they’ll give back the sale price. As a paid worker hired year by year they’ll be with them: Don’t let them be too hard on them. If they aren't bought back by these means, then they’ll be given up in the Year of Jubilee, they, and their children with them. The people of Israel are workers to Me; they’re My workers whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

26[1-13] You’ll make no false gods for yourselves, nor will you raise up a false god or a carved pillar, nor will you place any carved stone in your land, to worship it because I am Yahweh your God. You’ll keep My Seventh Days, and have respect for My place of worship. I am Yahweh. If you keep My laws, and My rules, and do them; then I’ll give you your rains in season, and the land will grow its food, and the trees of the field will grow their fruit. Your harvesting will reach to the time of grapes, and the time of grapes will reach to the planting time; and you’ll eat your bread to the full, and live in your land safely. I’ll give peace in the land, and you’ll lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I’ll take evil animals out of the land, nor will war go through your land. You’ll chase your enemies, and they’ll fall before you in war. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you in war. I’ll have respect for you, and make you have many children, and will keep My promise with you. You’ll eat old store long kept, and you’ll move out the old because of the new. I’ll set My Place of Worship among you: and My soul won't hate you. I’ll be with you, and be your God, and you’ll be My people. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their servants; and I’ve made your heavy loads to fall, and made you stand up straight.

[14-21] But if you don’t listen to Me, and won’t do all these Laws; and if you reject My laws, and your soul hates My rules, so that you don’t do them, and break My promise; I will do this to you also: I’ll put fear in your hearts, and disease and fever will take the spark out of your eyes, and make you die in sorrow; and you’ll plant your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it. I’ll turn against you, and you’ll be hurt by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you’ll run when no one is chasing you. If in spite of these things you still won’t listen to Me, then I’ll punish you seven times more for your sins. I’ll break the pride of your strength, and I’ll make your sky glow like hot iron, and your soil hard like brass; and your strength will be spent uselessly; for your land won't grow its food, nor will the trees of the land make their fruit. If you go against Me, and won't listen to Me, then I’ll bring seven times more problems on you by your sins.

[22-28] I’ll send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your animals, and make you few in number; and your roads will become empty. If by these things you won't learn from Me, but still go against Me; then I’ll go against you, too; and I’ll hurt you seven more times for your sins. I’ll bring war on you, that will punish you for breaking the promise; and you’ll be gathered together in your cities: and I’ll send disease among you; and you’ll be brought into the power of the enemy. When I destroy your supply of food, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they’ll bring your bread again by weight: and you’ll eat, and still be hungry. If in spite of this, you still won't listen to Me, but go against Me, then I’ll go against to you in great anger; and I’ll also punish you seven more times for your sins.

[29-35] You’ll eat the bodies of your own sons and daughters. I’ll destroy your places of worship, and your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on top of your lifeless false gods; and My soul will hate you. I’ll destroy your cities, and bring your places of worship to ruin, and I won’t be happy with the good smell of your offerings. I’ll bring the land into ruin; and your enemies that live in it will be in horror of it. I’ll scatter you among the nations, and I’ll bring war on you: and your land will be a ruin, and your cities will be a waste. Then the land will enjoy its Seventh Days as long as it’s deserted and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Seventh Days. As long as it’s deserted it will have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your Seventh Days, when you lived on it.

[36-39] As for those who are left, I’ll send fear into your hearts in the lands of your enemies: and the sound of a falling leaf will chase you; and you’ll run as running from war; and you’ll fall when no one is chasing you. You’ll trip over one another, as if it were a war, when no one is chasing you: and you’ll have no power to stand up to your enemies. You’ll die among the nations, and in the land of your enemies. Those who are left will die in sorrow from your faults and your parents’ faults in your enemies' lands.

[40-46] If they admit their fault, and their parents’ faults, in which they sinned against Me, and also that they went against Me, and that I also went against them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their unfit heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their sin; then I’ll remember My promise with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I’ll remember the land. The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Seventh Days while it lies deserted without them: and they’ll accept the punishment of their sin; because they rejected My rules, and their soul hated My laws. Yet for all that, when they’re in the land of their enemies, I won’t stay away from them, nor will I hate them, or destroy them completely. I won’t break My promise with them because I am Yahweh their God; but for their sake I’ll remember the promise of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'” These are the judgments, rules and laws, which Yahweh made with the people of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

27[1-8] Yahweh told Moses, “Tell the people of Israel, 'When someone makes a promise, the persons will be for Yahweh by what you say they’re worth. What a male from twenty to sixty years old is worth, will be fifty silver dollars, after the dollar of the place of worship. If it’s a female, then her worth will be thirty dollars. If the person is from five to twenty years old, then their worth will be for a male twenty dollars, and for a female ten dollars. If the person is from a month old to five years old, then their worth will be for a male five silver dollars, and for a female their worth will be three silver dollars. If the person is from sixty years old up; if it’s a male, then their worth will be fifteen dollars, and for a female ten dollars. But if they’re poorer than they’re worth, then they’ll be set before the priest, and the priest will set their worth. By the ability of whoever made the promise, the priest will set their worth.

[9-13] “'If it’s an animal that is brought for an offering to Yahweh, all that anyone gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy. Don’t switch it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if you change animal for animal at all, then both it and that for which it’s changed will be holy. If it’s any unfit animal, of which they don’t give as an offering to Yahweh, then you’ll set the animal before the priest; and the priest will set it’s worth, whether it’s good or bad. As the priest sets its worth, so will it be. But if you want to buy it back, then you’ll add a fifth of what it’s worth.

[14-15] When someone dedicates a house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest will decide what it’s worth, whether it’s good or bad: as the priest decides what it’s worth, so will it stand. If whoever dedicates it wants to buy it back, then you’ll add a fifth of the money of its worth to it, and it will be theirs.

[16-25] If someone dedicates to Yahweh part of the field they own, then its worth will be by the seed that’s planted in it: the planting of 80 gallons of barley will be valued at fifty silver dollars. If they dedicate a field from the Year of Jubilee, by its worth it will stand. But if they dedicate a field after the Jubilee, then the priest will count to them the money by the years that are left to the Year of Jubilee; and it will be taken from it’s worth. If whoever dedicated the field wants to buy it back, then a fifth of the money of its worth will be added to it, and it will be theirs. If they don’t buy back the field, or if they’ve sold the field to someone else, it won’t be bought back again; but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, will be holy to Yahweh, as a field dedicated; it will be owned by the priests. If they dedicate to Yahweh a field which they’ve bought, which is not what was already owned, then the priest will count to them its worth up to the Year of Jubilee; and they’ll give its worth on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh. In the Year of Jubilee the field will go back to the one from whom it was bought, to the one to whom the land belongs. Their worth will be by the dollar of the place of worship: twenty nickels to the dollar.

[26-29] No one may dedicate the firstborn among animals, which is offered as a firstborn to Yahweh, whether a bull or sheep, because it’s already Yahweh's. If it’s an unfit animal, then they’ll buy it back by its worth, and will add a fifth to it: or if it isn't bought back, then it will be sold by its worth. Even so, nothing that someone dedicates to Yahweh of all that they have, whether human or animal, or of the field they own, will be sold or bought back because every dedicated thing is most holy to Yahweh. No one dedicated, who is dedicated from among human beings, will be bought back; they’ll without a doubt be put to death.

[30-34] A tenth of all the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It’s holy to Yahweh. If someone buy backs anything they give, they’ll add five percent to it. A tenth of all the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the counting rod, will be holy to Yahweh. Don’t look at whether it’s good or bad, nor will you change it: and if you change it at all, then both it and that for which it’s changed will be holy. It won’t be bought back.'” These are the Laws which Yahweh told Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.