27:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a {a} singular vow, the persons [shall be] for the LORD by {b} thy estimation. (a) As of his son or daughter. (b) Who art the priest. 27:3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty {c} shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. (c) Read the value of the shekel in Ex 30:13. 27:6 And if [it be] from a {d} month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation [shall be] three shekels of silver. (d) He speaks of those vows by which the fathers dedicated their children to God who were not of such force; but they might be redeemed from them. 27:8 But if he be poorer {e} than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him. (e) If he is not able to pay according to your estimate. 27:9 And if [it be] a {f} beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that [any man] giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. (f) Which is clean, Le 11:2. 27:10 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 beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be {g} holy. (g) That is, consecrate to the Lord. 27:16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an {i} homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver. (i) Homer is a measure containing ten ephahs, read of an ephah in Ex 16:16,36. 27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have {k} sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. (k) For their own necessity or godly uses. 27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be {l} holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. (l) That is, who dedicate to the Lord with a curse to him that turns it to his private use, Nu 21:2, De 13:15, Jos 9:17. 27:23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, [even] unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give {m} thine estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing unto the LORD. (m) The priests evaluation. 27:26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether [it be] ox, or sheep: it [is] the {n} LORD'S. (n) It was the Lord's already. 27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; [but] shall surely be {o} put to death. (o) It shall remain without redemption. 27:31 And if a man will at all redeem [ought] of his tithes, he shall add thereto the {p} fifth [part] thereof. (p) Besides the value of the thing itself. 27:32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, [even] of whatsoever passeth under the {q} rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. (q) All that which is numbered: that is, every tenth as he falls by tale without exception or respect. | |