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LEVIT IC U S 2 7
You will live in such fear that the sound of a
leaf driven by the wind will send you fleeing.
You will run as though fleeing from a sword,
and you will fall even when no one pursues
you. 37 Though no one is chasing you, you will
stumble over each other as though fleeing from
a sword. You will have no power to stand up
against your enemies. 38 You will die among the
foreign nations and be devoured in the land of
your enemies. 39 Those of you who survive will
waste away in your enemies’ lands because of
their sins and the sins of their ancestors.
— promises —
from God
“I will walk among you;
I will be your God, and
you will be my people.”
L E V I T I C US 2 6:1 2
40 “But at last my people will confess their
sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying
me and being hostile toward me. 41 When I have
turned their hostility back on them and brought
them to the land of their enemies, then at last
their stubborn hearts will be humbled, and they
will pay for their sins. 42 Then I will remember
my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with
Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I
will remember the land. 43 For the land must be
abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as
it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for
their sins, for they have continually rejected my
regulations and despised my decrees.
44 “But despite all this, I will not utterly reject
or despise them while they are in exile in the
land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am
the Lord their God. 45 For their sakes I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in
the sight of all the nations, that I might be their
God. I am the Lord.”
46 These are the decrees, regulations, and
instructions that the Lord gave through Moses
on Mount Sinai as evidence of the relationship
between himself and the Israelites.
Redemption of Gifts Offered to the LORD
The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate
someone to the Lord by paying the value of
that person, 3 here is the scale of values to be
used. A man between the ages of twenty and
sixty is valued at fifty shekels* of silver, as
measured by the sanctuary shekel. 4 A woman
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of that age is valued at thirty shekels* of silver.
5 A boy between the ages of five and twenty is
valued at twenty shekels of silver; a girl of that
age is valued at ten shekels* of silver. 6 A boy
between the ages of one month and five years
is valued at five shekels of silver; a girl of that
age is valued at three shekels* of silver. 7 A man
older than sixty is valued at fifteen shekels of
silver; a woman of that age is valued at ten shekels* of silver. 8 If you desire to make such a vow
but cannot afford to pay the required amount,
take the person to the priest. He will determine
the amount for you to pay based on what you
can afford.
9 “If your vow involves giving an animal that
is acceptable as an offering to the Lord, any
gift to the Lord will be considered holy. 10 You
may not exchange or substitute it for another
animal—neither a good animal for a bad one
nor a bad animal for a good one. But if you do
exchange one animal for another, then both
the original animal and its substitute will be
considered holy. 11 If your vow involves an unclean animal—one that is not acceptable as an
offering to the Lord—then you must bring the
animal to the priest. 12 He will assess its value,
and his assessment will be final, whether high
or low. 13 If you want to buy back the animal,
you must pay the value set by the priest, plus
20 percent.
14 “If someone dedicates a house to the Lord,
the priest will come to assess its value. The
priest’s assessment will be final, whether high
or low. 15 If the person who dedicated the house
wants to buy it back, he must pay the value set
by the priest, plus 20 percent. Then the house
will again be his.
16 “If someone dedicates to the Lord a piece of
his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant
it—fifty shekels of silver for a field planted with
five bushels of barley seed.* 17 If the field is dedicated to the Lord in the Year of Jubilee, then the
entire assessment will apply. 18 But if the field
is dedicated after the Year of Jubilee, the priest
will assess the land’s value in proportion to the
number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee. Its assessed value is reduced each year.
19 If the person who dedicated the field wants
to buy it back, he must pay the value set by the
priest, plus 20 percent. Then the field will again
be legally his. 20 But if he does not want to buy
it back, and it is sold to someone else, the field
can no longer be bought back. 21 When the field
is released in the Year of Jubilee, it will be holy,
27:3 Or 20 ounces [570 grams]. 27:4 Or 12 ounces [342 grams].
27:5 Or A boy . . . 8 ounces [228 grams] of silver; a girl . . .
4 ounces [114 grams]. 27:6 Or A boy . . . 2 ounces [57 grams]
of silver; a girl . . . 1.2 ounces [34 grams]. 27:7 Or A man . . .
6 ounces [171 grams] of silver; a woman . . . 4 ounces [114 grams].
27:16 Hebrew 50 shekels [20 ounces or 570 grams] of silver for a
homer [220 liters] of barley seed.