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Legacy Standard Bible

Leviticus 27:25

Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gerah;   Property;   Redemption;   Vows;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gerah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dedication;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Anathema;   Vow;   Weights;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Redemption;   Vow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kinsman-Redeemer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Festivals, Religious;   Gerah;   Weights;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Avenger;   Festivals;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronology of the New Testament;   Gerah,;   Money;   Sabbatical Year;   Weights and Measures;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Gerah;   Inheritance;   Jubilee Year;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - 'Arakin;   Shekel;   Sidra;   Valuation;   Weights and Measures;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
King James Version
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Lexham English Bible
And every proper value of yours shall be in the sanctuary's shekel—the shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
New Century Version
"‘You must use the measure as set by the Holy Place in paying these prices; it weighs two-fifths of an ounce.
New English Translation
Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Amplified Bible
'Every valuation of yours shall be in accordance with the sanctuary shekel; twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
New American Standard Bible
'Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all thy valuation shall bee according to the shekel of the Sanctuarie: a shekel conteyneth twenty gerahs.
Contemporary English Version
Every price will be set by the official standards.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘All your valuations are to be according to the sanctuary shekel [two-fifths of an ounce], twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Darby Translation
And all thy valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You must use the official measure in paying these prices. The shekel by that measure weighs 20 gerahs.
English Standard Version
Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
George Lamsa Translation
And all the valuations thereof shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Good News Translation
All prices shall be set according to the official standard.
Christian Standard Bible®
All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Literal Translation
And all your valuation shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All maner of prysinge shalbe made acordinge to the Sycle of the Sactuary. One Sycle maketh xx. Geras.
American Standard Version
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Bible in Basic English
And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all thy valuation shalbe according to the sicle of the sanctuarie: One sicle contayneth twentie gerahs.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all thy valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
King James Version (1611)
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the Sanctuarie: twentie Gerahs shall bee the shekel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And every valuation shall be by holy weights: the didrachm shall be twenty oboli.
English Revised Version
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Berean Standard Bible
Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`Ech preisyng schal be peisid bi the sicle of seyntuarie; a sicle hath twenti halpens.
Young's Literal Translation
And all thy valuation is by the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs is the shekel.
Update Bible Version
And all your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
World English Bible
All your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
New King James Version
And all your valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
New Living Translation
(All the payments must be measured by the weight of the sanctuary shekel, which equals twenty gerahs.)
New Life Bible
The price of silver used in the holy place will decide its worth. One piece of silver will be worth twenty small pieces of money.
New Revised Standard
All assessments shall be by the sanctuary shekel: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, every estimate of thine, shall be by the holy shekel, - twenty gerahs, make the shekel.
Douay-Rheims Bible
All estimation shall be made according to the sicle of the sanctuary. A sicle hath twenty obols.
Revised Standard Version
Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be after the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

Contextual Overview

14‘Now if a man sets his house apart as holy to Yahweh, then the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15Yet if the one who sets it apart as holy should wish to redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his. 16‘Again, if a man sets apart as holy to Yahweh a portion of the fields of his own possession, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. 17If he sets apart his field as holy from the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. 18If he sets apart his field as holy after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your valuation. 19If the one who sets it apart as holy should ever wish to redeem the field, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it so that it may stand as his own. 20Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed; 21and it will be that when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to Yahweh, like a field that is devoted; it shall be for the priest as his possession. 22Or if he sets apart as holy to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not a portion of the field of his own possession, 23then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And all: Leviticus 27:3

to the shekel: A standard shekel; the standard being kept in the sanctuary, to try and regulate all the weights in the land by.

twenty: Exodus 30:13, Numbers 3:47, Numbers 18:16, Ezekiel 45:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:24 - the shekel Leviticus 5:15 - the shekel Numbers 7:13 - the shekel

Cross-References

Genesis 27:4
and prepare a savory dish for me such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, so that my soul may bless you before I die."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all thy estimation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary,.... The shekel kept in the sanctuary, which was the standard of all shekels; not that there was a shekel in the sanctuary different from the common one; for every shekel ought to have been as that, of the full weight and worth of it; and the estimation was to be according to such a shekel, and the money paid in such, even in full weight:

twenty gerahs shall be the shekel; which the Targum of Jonathan calls "meahs" or "oboli", one of which was about three halfpence of our money, scarce so much, and weighed near eleven grains, as Bishop Cumberland i has calculated: see Ezekiel 45:12.

i Of Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 111.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On the shekel and the gerah, see Exodus 30:13, note; Exodus 38:24, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 27:25. Shekel of the sanctuary — A standard shekel; the standard being kept in the sanctuary to try and regulate all the weights in the land by. See Genesis 20:16; Genesis 23:15.


 
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