King James Version
Leviticus 27
34 verses with commentary
Rules About Vows
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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<strong>And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies God's righteous requirements and transforms believers by H...
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XXVII.
(1) **And the Lord spake unto Moses.**—Like the group of enactments contained in Leviticus 25:1 to Leviticus 26:45, the regulations about the different kinds of vows are introduced with the formula which indicates that the section before us constitutes a separate Divine communication. As sundry allusions are made throughout this book to vows, thus legally acknowledging the existence of the ...
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**5-9. take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes--**for the showbread, as previously appointed (Ex 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1Ch 9:32; 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Le 2:13).
**two tenth deals--**that is, of an ephah--thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was...
Read full commentary →Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
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<strong>Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once...
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(2) **Shall make a singular vow.**—Better, *shall consecrate a vow. *(See Leviticus 22:21.) According to the interpretation of this phrase which obtained during the second Temple it denotes *shall pronounce a vow. *Hence the ancient Chaldee Versions render it, “shall distinctly pronounce a vow.” Accordingly, no vow mentally made or conceived was deemed binding. It had to be distinctly pronounced i...
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**5-9. take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes--**for the showbread, as previously appointed (Ex 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1Ch 9:32; 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Le 2:13).
**two tenth deals--**that is, of an ephah--thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was...
Read full commentary →And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
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<strong>And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>Every ...
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(3) **And thy estimation shall be of the male.**—Better, *Then thy estimation of the male shall be *(*as follows*)*.*
**From twenty years old even unto sixty years old.**—The estimation not only begins with the male, who is the most important person, but takes special notice of his age. The years here specified represent the prime of his life, and he is to be rated not according to his rank or pos...
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**5-9. take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes--**for the showbread, as previously appointed (Ex 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1Ch 9:32; 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Le 2:13).
**two tenth deals--**that is, of an ephah--thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was...
Read full commentary →And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
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<strong>And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>Hebrews 9-10 explains how Christ's once-for-all sacrifice supersedes the repeated Levitical offerings, providing per...
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(4) **And if it be a female . . . thirty shekels.**—As the woman is the weaker vessel, and her labour is of less value, if she vows herself or dedicates by a vow any other one of her own sex to the sanctuary, she is to pay thirty shekels, or £3 17s. 6d., provided she is within the above-named limits of age. This was the value of a slave (Exodus 21:32), and is the price at which Christ was sold (Ma...
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**5-9. take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes--**for the showbread, as previously appointed (Ex 25:30). Those cakes were baked by the Levites, the flour being furnished by the people (1Ch 9:32; 23:29), oil, wine, and salt being the other ingredients (Le 2:13).
**two tenth deals--**that is, of an ephah--thirteen and a half pounds weight each; and on each row or pile of cakes some frankincense was...
Read full commentary →And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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<strong>And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The New Testament reveals that Chr...
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(5) **If it be from five years old, even unto twenty years.**—From the fact that a child of five years is here mentioned it is evident that the vows hero spoken of are not simply those which a man makes with regard to his own person, but which he also makes about others, since a vow involving the payment of a considerable sum of money on the part of a child was of no force. The case, therefore, he...
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**10. the son of an Israelitish woman, &c.--**This passage narrates the enactment of a new law, with a detail of the circumstances which gave rise to it. The "mixed multitude" [Ex 12:38] that accompanied the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt creates a presumption that marriage connections of the kind described were not infrequent. And it was most natural, in the relative circumstances of t...
Read full commentary →And if it be from a 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.
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<strong>And if it be from a 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.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br...
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(6) **From a month old even unto five years old.**—That is, if a parent, or any other person, devotes his or anyone else’s child to the sanctuary, he is obliged to be redeemed according to the prescribed valuation. The formula used in such a case during the second Temple was, “Behold the estimation of this my boy, or this my girl, or of that boy or that girl, be upon me.”
**The male five shekels o...
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**11. And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord--**A youth of this half-blood, having quarrelled with an Israelite [Le 24:10], vented his rage in some horrid form of impiety. It was a common practice among the Egyptians to curse their idols when disappointed in obtaining the object of their petitions. The Egyptian mind of this youth thought the greatest insult to his opponent...
Read full commentary →And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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<strong>And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus poin...
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(7) **From sixty years old and above.**—Being almost past labour, the old man is next in value to the child.
**A male . . . fifteen shekels.**—The old man is therefore to be redeemed at £1 18s. 9d.
**The female ten shekels.**—The old woman, from sixty and upwards, is estimated at exactly the same value as the girl from five to twenty years old (see Leviticus 27:5), and hence is to be redeemed at *...
Read full commentary →But if he be poorer 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.
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<strong>But if he be poorer 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.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>Th...
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(8) **But if he be poorer than thy estimation.**—That is, if the person who makes the vow possesses less than the specified legal rates required to redeem it.
**Then he shall present himself before the priest.**—The man pleading poverty is to appear before the priest, who is to examine into his circumstances, and tax him accordingly. The minimum, however, which he was obliged to pay during the sec...
Read full commentary →And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
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<strong>And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the cal...
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(9) **And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering.**—That is, if what a man vows consists of sacrificial quadrupeds, viz., bullocks, sheep, or goats.
**Shall be holy.**—That is, must not be redeemed at all. They were delivered to the sanctuary: they were sold by the priests to those Israelites who required them as sacrifices for the altar, and the money expended in the maintenance of the s...
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**14. Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp--**All executions took place without the camp; and this arrangement probably originated in the idea that, as the Israelites were to be "a holy people" [De 7:6; 14:2, 21; 26:19; 28:9], all flagrant offenders should be thrust out of their society.
**let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, &c.--**The imposition of hands forme...
Read full commentary →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 holy.
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<strong>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 holy.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central them...
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(10) **He shall not alter it, nor change it.**—The identical animal vowed is to be delivered; no change whatever, even if it is in the substitution of a better for an inferior animal, is permitted. The stress laid upon this part of the enactment is indicated by the employment here of two verbs of the same import. If he who vows does change the one he dedicated to the Lord, both the animals, the on...
Read full commentary →And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
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<strong>And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Isr...
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(11) **And if it be any unclean beast.**—That is, if what he vows consists of an unclean beast, which does not belong to the three kinds of sacrificial quadrupeds, and which cannot therefore be sacrificed on the altar. According to the authorities during the second Temple, however, the expression “unclean beast” here denotes defective sacrificial animals, such as oxen, sheep, and goats with blemis...
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**16. as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death--**Although strangers were not obliged to be circumcised, yet by joining the Israelitish camp, they became amenable to the law, especially that which related to blasphemy.
And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be. as: Heb. according to thy estimation, O priest, etc
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<strong>And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The Aaronic priesthood mediated between God and Israel, offering sacrifice...
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(12) **Whether it be good or bad.**—That is, the priest shall estimate its value according to the condition of the animal, whatever that may be, whether it is of good quality or bad.
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**17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--**These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
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<strong>But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>Every sacrifice and ritual in Leviticus points forward to Jesus Christ, who fulfills the en...
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(13) **But if he will at all redeem it.**—Better, *and if he wishes to redeem it, *that is, the man himself who vowed it for the sanctuary. The estimate put upon the animal in question was intended for anyone who wished to purchase it, not excluding, however, the person who vowed it.
**He shall add a fifth part.**—Whilst anyone else could purchase the animal at the valuation put upon it by the pri...
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**17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--**These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.
Dedicating a House or Land
And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
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<strong>And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The cent...
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(14) **And when a man shall sanctify his house.**—That is, devotes it to the service of God by a vow, when it has to be sold and the money used by the authorities for the maintenance and repair of the sanctuary, unless it is required as a dwelling for the priests, or for some other purpose connected with the duties of the Temple. The sale, however, can only take place after the priest has carefull...
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**17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--**These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.
And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
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<strong>And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Levi...
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(15) **And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house.**—Though the net price thus fixed by the priest is all that anyone else who wishes to buy it has to pay for the house, yet if the former owner of it, or, according to the practice which obtained during the second Temple, his son, wife, or nearest of kin, wishes to redeem it, he is to add one-fifth more than the valuation price, just as in ...
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**17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--**These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.
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 homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. an: or, the land of an homer, etc
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<strong>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 homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching caref...
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(16) **Some part of a field of his possession.**—That is, if he consecrates by a vow to the service of the sanctuary a portion of a field which he inherits from his forefathers, and which, therefore, constitutes a part of his inalienable patrimony, thus distinguishing it from a field which he has acquired by his own purchase. (See Leviticus 27:22.) The words, *some part *which are in italics, are ...
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**17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--**These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
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<strong>If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His people to be holy. The H...
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(17) **If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile.**—That is, the above-named valuation of fifty shekels only applies if he makes the vow immediately after the expiration of the year of jubile, when the period covered by this estimation is forty-nine years.
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**17-22. he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death--**These verses contain a repetition of some other laws, relating to offenses of a social nature, the penalties for which were to be inflicted, not by the hand of private parties, but through the medium of the judges before whom the cause was brought.
But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
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<strong>But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching carefu...
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(18) **But if he sanctify his field after the jubile.**—If, however, the vow is made after the jubile, the priest is to value the field according to the number of years from the time of the vow to the next jubile year.
**And it shall be abated from thy estimation.**—That is, the years which have elapsed since the last jubile up to the time when he made the vow are to be deducted from the jubile cy...
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**23. the children of Israel did as the Lord's commanded--**The chapter closes with the execution of Shelomith's son [Le 24:14]--and stoning having afterwards become the established punishment in all cases of blasphemy, it illustrates the fate of Stephen, who suffered under a false imputation of that crime [Ac 7:58, 59].
And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
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<strong>And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The access to G...
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(19) **And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it.**—Better, *and if he wishes to redeem the field that sanctified it. *(See Leviticus 27:13.) This is sure to be the case, since the low value fixed per acre was designed that the field should be redeemed by him. According to the legislation during the second Temple, the rule here included his wife and his heirs, any one of whom ...
Read full commentary →And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
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<strong>And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ,...
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(20) **And if he will not redeem the field.**—That is, if after all the advantages which the law affords to the vower to redeem his patrimonial inheritance before the jubile year, he is base enough to forego the privilege of redemption, thus showing no desire to perpetuate his family name,—
**Or if he have sold the field to another man.**—Better, *and if he yet sells the field to another man, *tha...
Read full commentary →But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
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<strong>But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holin...
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(21) **But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile.**—That is, when it quits the hand of the purchaser, since in jubile every buyer was to part with the land which he bought, (see Leviticus 25:25-28)—
**Shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted.**—It shall not revert to the original owner who first vowed it and, after refusing to redeem it, fraudulently sold it, but becomes God’s property...
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CHAPTER 25 Le 25:1-7. Sabbath of the Seventh Year.
**2-4. When ye come into the land which I give you--**It has been questioned on what year, after the occupation of Canaan, the sabbatic year began to be observed. Some think it was the seventh year after their entrance. But others, considering that as the first six years were spent in the conquest and division of the land (Jos 5:12), and that the...
Read full commentary →And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
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<strong>And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and the call for His people...
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(22) **And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought.**—But if a man vows a field which he has acquired by purchase, and which is only his till the next jubile, when it reverts to its original owner (see Leviticus 25:25-28), the case is necessarily different. Such a leased field, when vowed *to *the Lord, is to be dealt with as follows :—
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CHAPTER 25 Le 25:1-7. Sabbath of the Seventh Year.
**2-4. When ye come into the land which I give you--**It has been questioned on what year, after the occupation of Canaan, the sabbatic year began to be observed. Some think it was the seventh year after their entrance. But others, considering that as the first six years were spent in the conquest and division of the land (Jos 5:12), and that the...
Read full commentary →Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
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<strong>Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The cent...
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(23) **Then the priest shall reckon unto him.**—In this case the vower is not to pay the low rate fixed for a field which is the family inheritance (see Leviticus 27:16), but the priest is to value it in proportion to the number of crops which it will produce up to the year of jubile, in the same way as fields are valued in ordinary purchases. (See Leviticus 25:14-16.)**
And he shall give thine es...
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CHAPTER 25 Le 25:1-7. Sabbath of the Seventh Year.
**2-4. When ye come into the land which I give you--**It has been questioned on what year, after the occupation of Canaan, the sabbatic year began to be observed. Some think it was the seventh year after their entrance. But others, considering that as the first six years were spent in the conquest and division of the land (Jos 5:12), and that the...
Read full commentary →In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
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<strong>In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>What Leviticus portrayed through types and s...
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(24) **The field shall return unto him of whom it was bought.**—In accordance with the law laid down in Leviticus 25:23-28, the field thus vowed did not return to the purchaser in the year of jubile, but to the, hereditary owner, of whom the person who had vowed it to the Lord had bought it.
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
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<strong>And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who bo...
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(25) **According to the shekel of the sanctuary.**—As the proceeds of these vows were devoted to the maintenance and repair of the sanctuary, all the valuations are to be made and paid according to the standard weight of the sanctuary shekel. (See Exodus 30:13.)
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 LORD'S. firstling of: Heb. firstborn, etc
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<strong>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 LORD'S.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holi...
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(26) **Only the firstling of the beasts.**—Better, *nevertheless the firstlings, *&c, as this rendering also suits Leviticus 27:28, which begins with the same particle, and which is translated in the Authorised Version, “not withstanding.” Having laid down the regulations about the four classes of objects which may be vowed to the Lord—viz.: 1, persons (Leviticus 27:2-8); 2, animals (Leviticus 27:...
Read full commentary →And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
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<strong>And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful...
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(27) **And if it be of an unclean beast.**—That is, if he vows the firstling of an unclean beast he could redeem it according to the valuation of the priest with the addition of one-fifth over and above the fixed value. If he did not redeem it the treasurer of the sanctuary sold it to anyone who liked to buy it at this valuation, and the proceeds were devoted to the maintenance and repairs of the ...
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Le 25:8-23. The Jubilee.
**8-11. thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years--**This most extraordinary of all civil institutions, which received the name of "Jubilee" from a Hebrew word signifying a musical instrument, a horn or trumpet, began on the tenth day of the seventh month, or the great day of atonement, when, by order of the public authorities, the sound of trumpets proclaimed the beginni...
Read full commentary →Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
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<strong>Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to Go...
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(28) **Notwithstanding no devoted thing.**—Better, *Nevertheless, no banned thing *(see Leviticus 27:26), that is, unlike those things consecrated to God by the vow hitherto spoken of, anything which the vower devoted to God under a solemn ban cannot be redeemed.**
Both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession.**—This shows the extent to which a man may go in exercising his power to de...
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Le 25:8-23. The Jubilee.
**8-11. thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years--**This most extraordinary of all civil institutions, which received the name of "Jubilee" from a Hebrew word signifying a musical instrument, a horn or trumpet, began on the tenth day of the seventh month, or the great day of atonement, when, by order of the public authorities, the sound of trumpets proclaimed the beginni...
Read full commentary →None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
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<strong>None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies...
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(29) **None devoted, which shall be devoted of men.**—Better, *Every one banned, which shall be banned of men, *that is, every one banned from amongst men, or every human being banned, is not to be redeemed. Like the cattle and the patrimonial estates, when once devoted to God by a vow of banning, the man thus banned by a vow comes irretrievably under the class of “most holy unto the Lord,” or one...
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Le 25:8-23. The Jubilee.
**8-11. thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years--**This most extraordinary of all civil institutions, which received the name of "Jubilee" from a Hebrew word signifying a musical instrument, a horn or trumpet, began on the tenth day of the seventh month, or the great day of atonement, when, by order of the public authorities, the sound of trumpets proclaimed the beginni...
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And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
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<strong>And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and t...
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(30) **And all the tithe of the land.**—That is, of the soil, or what grows on it, in contradistinction to the tithes of the land mentioned in Leviticus 27:32. The last things mentioned which cannot be dedicated to the Lord by a vow are tithes. Like the firstborn of Animals (see Leviticus 27:26), they already belong to God by another statute. A man, therefore, cannot vow to God what is not his own...
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Le 25:8-23. The Jubilee.
**8-11. thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years--**This most extraordinary of all civil institutions, which received the name of "Jubilee" from a Hebrew word signifying a musical instrument, a horn or trumpet, began on the tenth day of the seventh month, or the great day of atonement, when, by order of the public authorities, the sound of trumpets proclaimed the beginni...
Read full commentary →And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
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<strong>And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The holiness demanded in Leviticus becomes possible through Christ, who both satisfies...
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(31) **And if a man will at all redeem.**—Better *And if a man wishes to redeem. *(See Leviticus 27:13; Leviticus 27:19) Though a man may not vow tithes, being already the Lord’s, yet if he wishes he may redeem them by adding one-fifth to the actual value of them. According to the authorities during the second Temple, anyone was allowed to redeem the tithes due from another person by paying the ex...
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**12. ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field, &c.--**All that the ground yielded spontaneously during that period might be eaten for their necessary subsistence, but no persons were at liberty to hoard or form a private stock in reserve.
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
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<strong>And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The central theme of Leviticus is God's holiness and...
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(32) **Whatsoever passeth under the rod.**—That is, for the purpose of counting and tithing them. The manner in which this was done is described by the Jewish canonists as follows: “The owner is to gather all his lambs or all his calves into the fold and make a little door to it, so that two should not be able to go out at once. He is to place their dams without. As they bleat the lambs hear their...
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**13. ye shall return every man unto his possession, &c.--**Inheritances, from whatever cause, and how frequently soever they had been alienated, came back into the hands of the original proprietors. This law of entail, by which the right heir could never be excluded, was a provision of great wisdom for preserving families and tribes perfectly distinct, and their genealogies faithfully recorde...
Read full commentary →He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
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<strong>He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br>The cent...
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(33) **He shall not search whether it be good or bad.**—That is, the owner is not to pick out the good ones from the bad, but, as described above, is to mark every tenth one as it comes out of the fold as belonging to the Lord.**
And if he change it at all.**—See Leviticus 27:10.
These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
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<strong>These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.</strong><br><br>This verse falls within the section on <strong>Vows and Dedications</strong>. Regulations for voluntary vows and dedicating persons or property to God, teaching careful commitment.<br><br><br>The access to God's presence that Leviticus carefully regulated is now freely avai...
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(34) **These are the commandments.**—That is, the laws laid down in Leviticus 27:1-34.
**In Mount Sinai.**—In the mountainous district of Sinai. (See Leviticus 26:46.)
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