14 But if anyone wants to dedicate his house, to make it holy to the Lord, then the priest is obliged to evaluate this house, whether it is good or bad. As the priest evaluates, so it will be. 15But if the one who dedicates the property wishes to redeem his house, let him add a fifth of the said value to the valuation, and then the house will be his again.

16But when a man wishes to dedicate something to the Lord from his ancestral property, you will have to evaluate it according to how much grain can be sown there. For a homer of barley sown, fifty silver shekels.

17It happens that a man wishes to make his field a holy place in the year of jubilee, the same value will be preserved according to your estimate. 18And if anyone wishes to declare his field holy after the year of jubilee, the priest shall calculate the value of that field according to the years until the next year of jubilee,[971] and reduce the value determined by you.

19But if he who dedicates his field wishes to redeem it for himself, he must add to the redemption a fifth of the price of that field, and it will be his. 20But if he does not redeem the fields before the jubilee year, or sells them to another, he will not be able to redeem them again. 21In the year of jubilee, the rights to this field will be lost[972]a by both the former owner and his buyer, it will become holy to the Lord, as a field irrevocably given to Him[973]b; it will pass to the priest and will be his property.

22 If a person wishes to dedicate to the Lord not his own, ancestral field, but a field that he once bought, 23the priest will calculate its value according to the time remaining until the next jubilee year, and the person must pay the cost of the field that has become holy to the Lord on the spot. 24In the year of jubilee, that field shall be restored to the one from whom it was purchased, and whose ancestral property it was before. 25Everything is to be evaluated in shekels, which are in circulation in the Sanctuary, in each of which there are twenty gers.

About the redemption of firstborns

26No one shall dedicate the firstborn of the cattle, which already belongs to the Lord: the first offspring of the cattle, whether it is a young ox or a lamb, is the Lord's. 27But if it is an unclean animal, the owner may redeem it at the price you have set for it, adding a fifth of it to the price. An animal that the owner has not bought must be sold for its own price.

28No one has the right to sell or redeem what he has given to the Lord irrevocably as sworn, whether it be a man or an animal, or a field of ancestral property. Everything, if it is given in this way, is a great holiness of the Lord.

29And no man who has been cursed[974] can be ransomed, but he must be put to death.

On the redemption of tithes

30And every tithe of the land, or of the harvest of grain, or of the fruit of the trees, belongs to the Lord, and it is holiness to the Lord. 31 But if any man will redeem any of his tithes, he shall add to the redemption a fifth part of the price.

32 In the same way, the tithe of the cattle or the flocks, of everything that passes under the staff of the shepherd tenth, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 And in this calculation, the owner should not check whether the animal is good or bad, and it cannot be replaced by another. If someone replaces one animal for another, both creatures will become a shrine, not subject to redemption."

34These are the commandments for the children of Israel that the Lord gave to Moses on Mount Sinai.

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