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"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, '^(C1)When someone makes an explicit vow, he shall be valued according to your assessment of persons belonging to the LORD.

'If your assessment is of a male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your assessment shall be fifty shekels of silver, by ^(C1)the shekel of the sanctuary.

'Or if ^(F1)the person is a female, then your assessment shall be thirty shekels.

'And if the person is from five years even to twenty years old, then your assessment for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.

'But if the person is from a month even up to five years old, then your assessment shall be ^(C1)five shekels of silver for a male, and for a female your assessment shall be three shekels of silver.

'If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.

'But if he is poorer than your assessment, then he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; ^(C1)according to ^(F1)the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall assess him.

'Now if it is an animal of the kind that ^(F1)one can present as an offering to the LORD, any such animal that one gives to the LORD shall be holy.

'^(C1)He shall not replace it nor exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; yet if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.

'If, however, it is any unclean animal of the kind which ^(F1)one does not present as an offering to the LORD, then he shall place the animal before the priest.

'And the priest shall assess it ^(F1)as either good or bad; as you, the priest, assess it, so shall it be.

'But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.