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Leviticus 27

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall make·​·a·​·special vow, the souls shall be for Jehovah by thy value.

3 And thy value shall be of the male from a son of twenty years and even·​·to a son of sixty years, and thy value shall be fifty shekels of silver, by the shekel of the sanctuary.

4 And if it be a female, then thy value shall be thirty shekels.

5 And if it be from a son of five years even·​·until a son of twenty years, then thy value shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

6 And if it be from a son of one month even·​·until a son of five years, then thy value shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy value shall be three shekels of silver.

7 And if it be from a son of sixty years and above; if he be a male, then thy value shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

8 But if he be·​·poorer than thy value, then he shall make himself stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the mouth of what the hand of him who vowed attained shall the priest value him.

9 And if it be a beast, of which men offer an offering to Jehovah, all that any man gives of such to Jehovah shall be holy.

10 He shall not change it, and shall not exchange it, good with bad, or bad with good; and if exchanging he shall exchange beast with beast, then it and its exchange of it shall be holy.

11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer an offering to Jehovah, then he shall stand the beast before the priest;

12 and the priest shall value it, between the good and between the bad; as thou, the priest, valuest it, so shall it be.

13 But if redeeming he shall redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it above thy value.

14 And when a man shall sanctify his house as holy to Jehovah, then the priest shall value it, between what is good and what is bad; as the priest shall value it, so shall it be secured.

15 And if he who consecrated it shall redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of thy value above it, and it shall be his.

16 And if a man shall sanctify to Jehovah some part of a field of his possession, then thy value shall be according to its seed; an homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according·​·to thy value it shall be secured.

18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver according to* the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee, and it shall be diminished from thy value.

19 And if he who consecrated the field redeeming shall redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of thy value above it, and it shall be·​·secure to him.

20 And if he shall 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 goes·​·out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah, as a field devoted; the possession of it shall be for the priest.

22 And if anyone sanctify to Jehovah a field which he has bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

23 and the priest shall reckon to him the share of thy value, even to the year of the jubilee; and he shall give thy value in that day, as a holy thing to Jehovah.

24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

25 And all thy value shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

26 Only the firstborn among beasts, which is·​·firstborn to Jehovah, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep; it is for Jehovah.

27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it with thy value, and shall add a fifth of it above it; and if it not be redeemed, then it shall be sold with thy value.

28 Surely any devoted·​·thing, that a man shall·​·devote to Jehovah of all that he has, both of man and of beast, and of the field of his possession, shall not be sold nor redeemed; every devoted·​·thing, it is a holy of holies to Jehovah.

29 Every devoted·​·thing*, which shall be devoted from man, shall not be redeemed; dying it 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 Jehovah’s; it is holy to Jehovah.

31 And if a man redeeming shall redeem from’ his tithes, he shall add above it a fifth of it.

32 And every tithe of the herd, or of the flock, all that passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Jehovah.

33 He shall not seek·​·out whether it be good or bad, and he shall not exchange it; and if exchanging he exchange it, then it shall be, and its exchange of it shall be, holy; it shall not be redeemed.

34 These are the commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses for the sons of Israel on Mount Sinai.

   


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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White House at Night by Vincent van Gogh

A "house" is essentially a container -- for a person, a family, several families or even a large group with shared interests (think of the term "houses of worship.") In the Bible, a "house" is also a container, but for spiritual things rather than natural things. In various uses a "house" can represent part of the mind, the whole mind, a whole person or even a church. The other nuance to the word "house" is that it is generally used in regards to our affections and desires rather than our thoughts and principles. This makes sense; we tend to engage our thoughts and rationality when we are out in the world doing our work, but when we are inside our houses we are driven most by love for our families and the desire to be good to those we love. So "house" tends to represent the things we want and care about -- which are ultimately the things that define us.