Leviticus 27

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You are listening to the Dope Daily Audio Bible, and I'm your guy, pastor Charlie Mitchell, and today we're looking at Leviticus Chapter 27. Let's roll the Lord. Spoke to Moses. Speak to the Israelites and tell them when someone makes a special vow to the Lord that involve the assessment of people. If the assessment concerns a male from 20 to 60 years old, Your assessment is 50 silver shekels measured by the standard sanctuary shekel. If the person is a female, your assessment is 30 shekels. If the person is from five to 20 years old, your assessment for a male is 20 shekels, and for a female 10 shekels, if the person is from one month to five years old, Your assessment for a male is five silver shekels and for a female, your assessment is three silver shekels. If the person is 60 years or more, Your assessment is 15 shekels for a male and 10 shekels for a female. But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he is to present the person before the priest, and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford. If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the Lord. Any of these he gives to the Lord will be holy. He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good or bad or good for bad, but if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy. If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest. The priest will set its value whether high or low. the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you. If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value. When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will assess his value, whether high or low, the price will stand just as the priest assesses it. But if the one who consecrated his house, redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will be his If a man consecrates to the lower, any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it at the rate of 50 silver shekels for every six bushels of barley seed. If he consecrates his field during the year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your assessment. But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him a proportion to the years left until the year of Jubilee. So that your assessment will be reduced. If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value and the field will transfer back to him. But if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable. When the field is released in Jubilee, it will be to the Lord, like a field permanently set apart and becomes the priest's property. If a person consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited land holdings, then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the Lord. And the year of Jubilee, the field, will return to the one he brought it from, the original owner. All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel 20 gars to the shekel, but no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock to the Lord.'cause a firstborn already belongs to the Lord. If it is one of the unclean livestock, it is to be ransom according to your assessment, by adding a fifth of its value to it, if it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment. Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns. Whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding can be sold or redeemed, everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord. No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransom. He must be put to death. Every 10th of the land's produce grain from the soil or fruit from the trees belongs to the Lord. It is holy to the Lord. if a man decides to redeem any part of this 10th, he must add a fifth to its value. Every 10th animal from the herd of flock, which passes under the shepherd's rod will be holy to the Lord. He is not to inspect whether it's good or bad. He's not to make a substitution for it, but if he does make a substitution, both the animal and his substitute will be holy. They cannot be redeemed. These are the commands. The Lord gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, you are the owner of all things. The Earth is yours and everything in it. Even the promises and the vows that we make and the sacrifices are reminders that we are not our own. Teach us to hold nothing back from you. May our hearts be quick to surrender in our lives. Be a living offering of worship. Thank you for the grace that covers our lack, the mercy that regimes are broken, and the son who gave himself as the ultimate offering for us. Make us generous, not out of a sense of duty or obligation, but out of a delight. Consecrate us for your glory. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. I.