# Leviticus 27 📖: Vows and Dedications [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Leviticus Overview]] | [[Leviticus 26]] | [[Numbers 01]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Redemption of Gifts Offered to the Lord [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses: [[#Verse 02.]] “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When a man makes a special votive offering based on the conversion value of a person to the Lord, [[#Verse 03.]] the conversion value of the male from twenty years old up to sixty years old is 50 shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel. [[#Verse 04.]] If the person is a female, the conversion value is 30 shekels. [[#Verse 05.]] If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the conversion value of the male is 20 shekels, and for the female 10 shekels. [[#Verse 06.]] If the person is one month old up to five years old, the conversion value of the male is five shekels of silver, and for the female the conversion value is three shekels of silver. [[#Verse 07.]] If the person is from sixty years old and older, if he is a male, the conversion value is 15 shekels, and for the female 10 shekels. [[#Verse 08.]] If the person making the votive offering is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest, and the priest will establish his conversion value; according to what the man who made the votive offering can afford, the priest will establish his conversion value. [[#Verse 09.]] “‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the Lord, anything which he gives to the Lord from this kind of animal will be holy. [[#Verse 10.]] He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal and its substitute will be holy. [[#Verse 11.]] If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the Lord, then he must stand the animal before the priest, [[#Verse 12.]] and the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. According to the conversion value assessed by the priest, thus it will be. [[#Verse 13.]] If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, he must add one-fifth to its conversion value. [[#Verse 14.]] “‘If a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. Just as the priest establishes its conversion value, thus it will stand. [[#Verse 15.]] If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one-fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him. [[#Verse 16.]] “‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at 50 shekels of silver. [[#Verse 17.]] If he consecrates his field in the Jubilee year, the conversion value will stand, [[#Verse 18.]] but if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next Jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value. [[#Verse 19.]] If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one-fifth of the conversion price, and it will belong to him. [[#Verse 20.]] If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it. [[#Verse 21.]] When it reverts in the Jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest’s property. [[#Verse 22.]] “‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property, [[#Verse 23.]] the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the Jubilee year, and he must pay the conversion value on that Jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord. [[#Verse 24.]] In the Jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property. [[#Verse 25.]] Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; 20 gerahs to the shekel. [[#Verse 26.]] “‘Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the Lord as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the Lord. [[#Verse 27.]] If, however, it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to its conversion value and must add one-fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed, it must be sold according to its conversion value. [[#Verse 28.]] “‘Surely anything that a man permanently dedicates to the Lord from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord. [[#Verse 29.]] Any human being who is permanently dedicated to the Lord must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death. [[#Verse 30.]] “‘Any tithe of the land, from the grain of the land or from the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord. [[#Verse 31.]] If a man redeems part of his tithe, however, he must add one-fifth to it. [[#Verse 32.]] All the tithe of herds or flocks, everything which passes under the rod, the tenth one will be holy to the Lord. [[#Verse 33.]] The owner must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, both the original animal and its substitute will be holy and must not be redeemed.’” [[#Verse 34.]] These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses to tell the Israelites at Mount Sinai. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Values for people dedicated by vow were set by age and sex. A man from twenty to sixty was valued at fifty shekels (27:3). 2. A person too poor to pay was assessed by the priest according to what he could afford (27:8). 3. Redeeming dedicated animals, houses, or fields cost the assessed value plus a fifth (27:13, 15, 19). 4. Firstborn animals already belonged to the Lord, so they could not be dedicated again (27:26). 5. Things "devoted" to the Lord, *cherem* in Hebrew, could not be sold or redeemed (27:28). 6. Field values were tied to the number of years until the Jubilee (27:17-18). 7. A tithe of the land's produce and of the herds and flocks belonged to the Lord (27:30-32). 8. Every tenth animal that passed under the shepherd's rod was holy to the Lord (27:32). 9. Hannah's vow (1 Samuel 1:11) and Jephthah's vow (Judges 11:30-31) show how seriously vows were taken in Israel. 10. The book ends by noting these commands were given at Mount Sinai (27:34). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the One who paid the price to redeem us. Leviticus 27 sets the value for redeeming what was dedicated to God, and we were bought not with silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. God took vows seriously enough to put a price on them (27:2-8). How careful are you with the promises you make to God (Ecclesiastes 5:4-5)? 2. The tithe of the land belongs to the Lord (27:30). How does seeing giving as returning what is already His change your perspective? 3. Redeeming something dedicated to God cost its value plus a fifth (27:13). What does that say about taking back what we have given to God? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 2: Instructions for someone who makes a special vow to the Lord. - 📖 verse 28: Anything permanently devoted to the Lord is most holy and cannot be sold or redeemed. - 📖 verse 30: The tithe of the land is holy and belongs to the Lord. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[1 Peter 01#Verse 18.|1 Peter 1:18-19]] - Redeemed with the precious blood of Christ. - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 06#Verse 19.|1 Corinthians 6:19-20]] - You were bought at a price. - 🔗 [[Ecclesiastes 05#Verse 04.|Ecclesiastes 5:4-5]] - Fulfill your vows to God. - 🔗 [[Malachi 03#Verse 10.|Malachi 3:10]] - Bring the full tithe. - 🔗 [[Matthew 05#Verse 33.|Matthew 5:33-37]] - Let your yes be yes. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 📂 Internal Notes