Lev 27, Deu 13 | ESV | STEP | The Lord spoke to Moses , saying ,

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone ^amakes 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 ^cshekel 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 ^eHe 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 ^fBut if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a ^gfifth 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 ^hAnd if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a ⁱfifth 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 ^kcalculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. 19 ^lAnd if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a ^mfifth 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, ⁿwhen it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been ^odevoted. The priest shall be in ^ppossession of it. 22 If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, ^qwhich is not a part of his possession, 23 ^rthen 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 ^sIn 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 ^tthe shekel of the sanctuary: ^utwenty gerahs ^{▼▼A gerah was about 1/50 ounce or 0.6 gram} shall make a shekel.

26 “But a ^wfirstborn 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, ^xand add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

28 “But ^yno 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 ^zNo 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 ^ab“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 ^acpass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, ^adneither 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 ^aeThese are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel ^afon Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 13

1 “If a prophet or ^aga dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and ^ahthe sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God ^aiis testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall ^ajwalk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and ^akhold fast to him. 5 But ^althat prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ^amSo you shall purge the evil ^{▼▼Or evil person} from your midst.

6 ^ao“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or ^apthe wife you embrace ^{▼▼Hebrew the wife of your bosom} or your friend ^arwho is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ ^aswhich neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 some ^atof the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, 8 you shall ^aunot yield to him or listen to him, nor ^avshall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9 But you shall kill him. ^awYour hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 ^axYou shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 11 And ^ayall Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

12 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there, 13 that certain ^azworthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, 14 then you shall inquire and make search and ask ^badiligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, 15 you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, ^{▼▼That is, setting apart ( devoting) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and ^bcburn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a ^bdheap forever. It shall not be built again. 17 ^beNone of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, ^bfthat the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, ^bgas he swore to your fathers, 18 if you obey the voice of the Lord your God, ^bhkeeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.