1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2“Tell the people of Israel: ‘When someone makes a promise to Yahweh to dedicate a person, you must set a value for that person.
3Your valuation for a male between twenty and sixty years old will be fifty shekels of silver, according to the standard sanctuary shekel.
4If the person is female, your valuation will be thirty shekels.
5If the person is between five and twenty years old, your valuation will be twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female.
6If the person is between one month and five years old, your valuation will be five shekels of silver for a male and three shekels of silver for a female.
7If the person is sixty years old or older, your valuation will be fifteen shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female.
8But if someone is too poor to pay your valuation, they must be presented to the priest, and the priest will set a value for them based on what they can afford to pay.
9‘If someone brings an animal as an offering to Yahweh, any animal given to Yahweh in this way becomes holy.
10You must not exchange it or substitute a good one for a bad one, or a bad one for a good one. If you swap one animal for another, both the original animal and the substitute will become holy.
11If it is an unclean animal, one that is not offered to Yahweh, then it must be presented to the priest;
12and the priest will assess its value, whether it is good or bad. Whatever the priest determines its value to be, that will be its worth.
13But if the owner wants to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to its assessed value.
14‘When someone dedicates their house to be holy to Yahweh, the priest will assess its value, whether it is good or bad. Whatever the priest decides its value is, that amount will stand.
15If the one who dedicated the house wants to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to the assessed valuation, and it will become theirs again.
16‘If someone dedicates a portion of their inherited field to Yahweh, its value will be determined by the amount of seed it requires. A field that needs fifty shekels of barley seed will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
17If they dedicate their field at the start of the Year of Jubilee, its value will be set according to your valuation.
18But if they dedicate their field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the money based on the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee, and a deduction will be made from your valuation.
19If the one who dedicated the field wants to buy it back, they must add one-fifth to the assessed valuation, and it will remain theirs.
20If he doesn't buy back the field, or if he sells it to another person, it can no longer be bought back.
21But when the Jubilee Year comes, the field will be set apart for Yahweh, like a field set aside for holy use. It will belong to the priests.
22“‘If someone dedicates a field they bought to Yahweh, a field that isn't part of their inherited property,
23then the priest will calculate its value for him up to the Year of Jubilee. On that day, he must pay the calculated value as a holy offering to Yahweh.
24In the Year of Jubilee, the field will go back to the person who originally sold it, to whom the land belongs.
25All your valuations must be based on the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs.
26“‘No one may dedicate an animal that is already the firstborn, because it already belongs to Yahweh, whether it's an ox or a sheep. It is Yahweh's.
27If the animal is unclean, he must buy it back according to your valuation and add one-fifth to its price. If it is not bought back, then it must be sold according to your valuation.
28“‘However, nothing that a person sets apart completely for Yahweh from all they own—whether a person, an animal, or a field they possess—can be sold or bought back. Everything set apart completely is most holy to Yahweh.
29“‘No person who has been completely set apart among people for Yahweh can be ransomed; they must surely be put to death.
30“‘All the tithes of the land, whether from harvested grain or fruit from the trees, belong to Yahweh. They are holy to Yahweh.
31If someone wants to buy back any part of their tithe, they must add one-fifth to its value.
32For all tithes of herds and flocks, every tenth animal that passes under the shepherd's counting stick will be holy to Yahweh.
33The owner must not check if it's good or bad, and they must not exchange it. If they do exchange it, then both the original animal and the exchanged animal will become holy and cannot be bought back.’
34These are the commands Yahweh gave Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.