¹ Pela segunda vez veio a palavra do Senhor a Jonas, dizendo:

² Levanta-te, e vai à grande cidade de Nínive, e lhe proclama a mensagem que eu te ordeno.

³ Levantou-se, pois, Jonas, e foi a Nínive, segundo a palavra do Senhor. Ora, Nínive era uma grande cidade, de três dias de jornada.

⁴ E começou Jonas a entrar pela cidade, fazendo a jornada dum dia, e clamava, dizendo: Ainda quarenta dias, e Nínive será subvertida.

⁵ E os homens de Nínive creram em Deus; e proclamaram um jejum, e vestiram-se de saco, desde o maior deles até o menor.

⁶ A notícia chegou também ao rei de Nínive; e ele se levantou do seu trono e, despindo-se do seu manto e cobrindo-se de saco, sentou-se sobre cinzas.

⁷ E fez uma proclamação, e a publicou em Nínive, por decreto do rei e dos seus nobres, dizendo: Não provem coisa alguma nem homens, nem animais, nem bois, nem ovelhas; não comam, nem bebam água;

⁸ mas sejam cobertos de saco, tanto os homens como os animais, e clamem fortemente a Deus; e convertam-se, cada um do seu mau caminho, e da violência que há nas suas mãos.

⁹ Quem sabe se se voltará Deus, e se arrependerá, e se apartará do furor da sua ira, de sorte que não pereçamos?

¹⁰ Viu Deus o que fizeram, como se converteram do seu mau caminho, e Deus se arrependeu do mal que tinha dito lhes faria, e não o fez.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

² "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your valuation.

³ Your valuation shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

⁴ If it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

⁵ If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

⁶ If the person is from a month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

⁷ If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

⁸ But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

⁹ "'If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to Yahweh, all that any man gives of such to Yahweh becomes holy.

¹⁰ He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.

¹¹ If it is any unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to Yahweh, then he shall set the animal before the priest;

¹² and the priest shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values it, so shall it be.

¹³ But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.

¹⁴ "'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand.

¹⁵ If he who dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

¹⁶ "'If a man dedicates to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

¹⁷ If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

¹⁸ But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation.

¹⁹ If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall remain his.

²⁰ If he will 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 Yahweh, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.

²² "'If he dedicates to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,

²³ then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.

²⁴ In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.

²⁵ All your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.

²⁶ "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.

²⁷ If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

²⁸ "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.

²⁹ "'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

³⁰ "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh's. It is holy to Yahweh.

³¹ If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.

³² All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.

³³ He shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"

³⁴ These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.