Gen 31:13, Lev 27, Num 6:1-20, 21:2-3, Judg 11:30-31, 1Sa 1:11, 28 | ESV | STEP | I am the God of Bethel , where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise , go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred .

13 I am the God of Bethel, ^awhere you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now ^barise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.’”

Leviticus 27

Laws About Vows

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone ^cmakes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, 3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} of silver, according to the ^eshekel of the sanctuary. 4 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.

9 “If the vow ^{▼▼Hebrew it} is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. 10 ^gHe shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. 11 And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, 12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. 13 ^hBut if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a ⁱfifth to the valuation.

14 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 ^jAnd if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a ^kfifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

16 “If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer ^{▼▼A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters} of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, 18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall ^mcalculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. 19 ⁿAnd if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a ^ofifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. 20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore. 21 But the field, ^pwhen it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been ^qdevoted. The priest shall be in ^rpossession of it. 22 If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, ^swhich is not a part of his possession, 23 ^tthen the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord. 24 ^uIn the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. 25 Every valuation shall be according to ^vthe shekel of the sanctuary: ^wtwenty gerahs ^{▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram} shall make a shekel.

26 “But a ^yfirstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, ^zand add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

28 “But ^aano devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 ^abNo one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

30 ^ad“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that ^aepass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, ^afneither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

34 ^agThese are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel ^ahon Mount Sinai.

Numbers 6:1-20

The Nazirite Vow

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of ^aia Nazirite, ^{▼▼ Nazirite means one separated, or one consecrated} ^akto separate himself to the Lord, 3 he ^alshall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4 All the days of his separation ^{▼▼Or Naziriteship} he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.

5 “All the days of his vow of separation, no ^anrazor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. ^aoHe shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

6 “All the days that he separates himself to the Lord ^aphe shall not go near a dead body. 7 ^aqNot even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

9 “And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then ^arhe shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. 10 ^asOn the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 11 and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day 12 and separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old ^atfor a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

13 “And this is the law for the Nazirite, ^auwhen the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 14 and he shall bring his gift to the Lord, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish ^avas a sin offering, and one ram without blemish ^awas a peace offering, 15 and a basket of unleavened bread, ^axloaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their ^aygrain offering and their ^azdrink offerings. 16 And the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer ^bahis sin offering and his burnt offering, 17 and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering. 18 And the Nazirite ^bbshall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 19 And the priest shall take the ^bcshoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and ^bdshall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration, 20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. ^beThey are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Numbers 21:2-3

2 ^bfAnd Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.” ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 3} 3 And the Lord heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called ^bhHormah. ^{▼▼ Hormah means destruction}

Judges 11:30-31

30 And Jephthah ^bjmade a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 then whatever ^{▼▼Or whoever} comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites ^blshall be the Lord’s, and ^bmI will offer it ^{▼▼Or him} up for a burnt offering.”

1 Samuel 1:11

11 And she ^bovowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed ^bplook on the affliction of your servant and ^bqremember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, ^brand no razor shall touch his head.”

1 Samuel 1:28

28 Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.”

^bsAnd he worshiped the Lord there.