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.
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.
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.
