Keep Your Promises to the Lord
1The Lord said to Moses, 2“Speak to the Israelites. Tell them, ‘Suppose someone makes a special promise to set a person apart to serve the Lord. Here is how much it will cost to set that person free from the promise to serve. 3The cost for a male between the ages of twenty and sixty is 20 ounces of silver. It must be weighed out in keeping with the standard weights that are used in the sacred tent. 4The cost for a female of the same age is 12 ounces of silver. 5The cost for a male between the ages of five and twenty is 8 ounces of silver. The cost for a female of the same age is 4 ounces of silver. 6The cost for a male between the ages of one month and five years is 2 ounces of silver. The cost for a female of the same age is 1 ounce of silver. 7The cost for a male who is sixty years old or more is 6 ounces of silver. The cost for a female of the same age is 4 ounces of silver. 8But suppose the one who makes the special promise is too poor to pay the required amount. Then they must bring to the priest the person who will be set free. The priest will decide the right value for that person. It will be based on how much the one who makes the promise can afford.
9“ ‘Suppose what they promised is an animal that the Lord will accept as an offering. Then the animal given to the Lord becomes holy. 10The one who makes the promise must not trade it. They must not trade a good animal for a bad one. And they must not trade a bad animal for a good one. Suppose they choose one animal instead of another. Then both animals become holy. 11Suppose the animal they promised is not “clean.” Suppose the Lord will not accept it as an offering. Then the animal must be brought to the priest. 12He will decide whether it is good or bad. Its value will be what he decides it will be. 13Suppose the owner wants to buy the animal back. Then a fifth must be added to its cost.
14“ ‘Suppose someone sets apart their house as something holy to the Lord. Then the priest will decide whether it is good or bad. Its value will remain what he decides it will be. 15Suppose the person sets apart their house. And suppose later they want to buy it back. Then they must add a fifth to its value. The house will belong to them again.
16“ ‘Suppose someone sets apart a piece of their family’s land to the Lord. Then here is how its value must be decided. It must be based on the number of seeds that are required to grow a full crop on it. That value will be 20 ounces of silver for every 300 pounds of barley seeds. 17Suppose they set apart their field during the Year of Jubilee. Then the value that has been decided will not be changed. 18But suppose they set apart their field after the Year of Jubilee. Then here is how the priest will decide its value. It will be based on the number of years that are left until the next Year of Jubilee. The value decided will be reduced. 19Suppose the one who set apart their field wants to buy it back. Then they must add a fifth to its value. The field will belong to them again. 20But suppose they do not buy back the field. Instead, suppose they sell it to someone else. Then they can never buy it back. 21When the field is set free in the Year of Jubilee, it will become holy. It will be like a field set apart to the Lord. It will become the property of the priests.
22“ ‘Suppose someone sets apart to the Lord a field they have bought. And suppose it is not part of their family’s land. 23Then here is how the priest will decide its value. It will be based on the number of years that are left until the Year of Jubilee. The owner must pay that value on the day it is decided. The money is holy. It is set apart for the Lord. 24In the Year of Jubilee the field will go back to the person it was bought from. That person is the one who had owned the land before. 25Every amount of money must be weighed out in keeping with the standard weights used in the sacred tent.
26“ ‘But no one can set apart the first male animal born to its mother. That animal already belongs to the Lord. It does not matter whether it is an ox or a sheep. It belongs to the Lord. 27Suppose it is an “unclean” animal. Then the owner may buy it back at the value that has been decided. And they must add a fifth to its value. But suppose it is not bought back. Then it must be sold at the value that has been decided.
28“ ‘But nothing a person owns and sets apart to the Lord can be sold or bought back. It does not matter whether it is a human being or an animal or a family’s land. Everything set apart to the Lord is very holy to him.
29“ ‘No one set apart in a special way to be destroyed can be bought back. They must be put to death.
30“ ‘A tenth of everything the land produces belongs to the Lord. That includes grain from the soil and fruit from the trees. It is holy. It is set apart for him. 31Suppose someone wants to buy back some of their tenth. Then they must add a fifth of the cost to it. 32Every tenth part of herds and flocks will be holy. They will be set apart for the Lord. That includes every tenth animal that its shepherd marks with his wooden staff. 33No one may pick out the good animals from the bad. They must not choose one animal instead of another. But if anyone does, both animals become holy. They can’t be bought back.’ ”
34The Lord gave Moses all these commands on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.
許願的條例
1耶和華對摩西說： 2「你要告訴以色列人：如果有人許下特別的願，以付身價的方式奉獻一個人給耶和華，就要為被奉獻者估定身價。 3以聖所的秤為準，要為二十至六十歲的男子估價十兩銀子， 4女子則估價七兩銀子； 5五至二十歲的男子估價四兩銀子，女子則估價二兩銀子； 6滿月至五歲的男子估價一兩銀子，女子則估價半兩多銀子； 7六十歲以上的男子估價三兩銀子，女子則估價二兩銀子。 8如果許願的人因貧窮而負擔不起，就要把他帶到祭司面前，祭司要按他的能力另行估價。
9「如果有人許願獻牲畜給耶和華作供物，所獻的牲畜就會成為聖物。 10不可更換所獻的牲畜，不可以壞換好，也不可以好換壞。如果更換，兩頭牲畜都會成為聖物。 11如果許願獻的是不潔淨的牲畜，即不能獻給耶和華作供物的牲畜，那人就要把牲畜帶到祭司面前， 12由祭司評定牠的好壞，祭司估價多少就是多少。 13那人如果有意贖回，必須支付祭司估定的價值，再加付五分之一。
14「如果有人把房子分別出來獻給耶和華，祭司就要評定房子的好壞，祭司估價多少就是多少。 15那人如果想贖回房子，必須支付祭司估定的價值，再加付五分之一，房子便仍歸他所有。
16「如果有人把自己繼承的部分土地分別出來獻給耶和華，祭司就要按照土地的播種量來估價，撒二百升大麥種子的土地值十兩銀子。 17如果有人在禧年奉獻土地，所估的價便是定價。 18如果是在禧年以後獻的，祭司要按照距下個禧年的年數來估價，估價要逐年減低。 19如果那人想贖回所獻的土地，要在估價的基礎上加付五分之一，土地便仍歸他所有。 20他如果沒有贖回土地，而是賣給別人，便再也不能贖回。 21到了禧年，那土地要像永遠獻給耶和華的土地一樣歸耶和華，成為祭司的產業。
22「如果獻給耶和華的土地不是自己的產業，而是買來的， 23祭司就要按照距下個禧年的年數來估價。那人要當天付清地價，地價歸耶和華。 24到了禧年，他要把所獻的土地歸還給賣主，就是土地的原主。 25所有價銀的稱量要以聖所的秤為準，即二十季拉為一舍客勒27·25 一舍客勒約合十一克。。
26「潔淨牲畜的頭胎，無論是牛是羊，已經屬於耶和華，任何人不可再把牠獻給耶和華。 27如果是不潔淨牲畜的頭胎，他可以在祭司的估價基礎上，加付五分之一把牠贖回；如果不贖回，就要按估價把牠賣掉。 28凡永遠獻上的27·28 「永遠獻上的」指完全獻給耶和華、永不可贖回的人或物，一般要被毀滅。此律多適用於戰爭中被攻佔的城邑或戰俘。，不論是人、牲畜或是田產，都不可賣掉，也不可贖回，因為這一切都是耶和華的至聖之物。 29凡永遠獻上的人不可被贖回，必須被處死。
30「土地的所有出產中，不論是穀物還是樹上的果實，十分之一屬於耶和華，是耶和華的聖物。 31如果有人想從那十分之一中贖回一部分，他要加付估價的五分之一。 32至於牛羊，要讓牠們從牧人的杖下經過，每十隻的第十隻要歸耶和華作聖物。 33不論是好是壞，不可挑揀，不可更換。如果更換，兩隻都要作聖物，不可贖回。」
34以上是耶和華在西奈山上藉摩西向以色列人頒佈的誡命。
