Lévitique 27:3

Darby's French Translation

Et ton estimation d'un mâle depuis l'âge de vingt ans jusqu'à l'âge de soixante ans, ton estimation sera de cinquante sicles d'argent, selon le sicle du sanctuaire;

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Telle sera ton estimation: si c'est un homme de vingt � soixante ans, ton estimation sera de cinquante sicles d'argent, selon le sicle du sanctuaire.

Louis Segond (1910)
Si tu as � faire l'estimation d'un m�le de vingt � soixante ans, ton estimation sera de cinquante sicles d'argent, selon le sicle du sanctuaire;

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et l'estimation que tu feras d'un m�le, depuis l'�ge de vingt ans jusqu'� l'�ge de soixante ans, sera du prix de cinquante sicles d'argent, selon le sicle du Sanctuaire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And thy estimation: Leviticus 27:14, Leviticus 5:15, Leviticus 6:6, Numbers 18:16, 2 Kings 12:4, *marg.

fifty shekels: i.e, At three shillings each, 7. 10s. sterling.

after the: Leviticus 27:25, Exodus 30:13

Reciprocal: Exodus 38:24 - the shekel Numbers 7:13 - the shekel Judges 11:31 - shall surely

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thy estimation shall be,.... The estimation of the man himself that vowed, or of the priest for him, was not left to be made by either of them at their pleasure, but was to be made according to the following rules, in proportion to the age a person was of to be estimated:

of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old: the account begins with these, because men of an age from the one to the other are fittest for labour, and therefore to be set at the highest price, as they are in the next clause:

even that estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary; a shekel was about half a crown of our money, or somewhat less, so that fifty of these amounted to about six pounds: these shekels were to be of the full weight, according to the standard that was kept in the sanctuary, and were the highest price that was set upon any; and this was paid equally by all of the same age, whether rich or poor: hence it is said,

"in estimations there is nothing less than one shekel, nor more than fifty n.''

n Misn. Eracin, c. 2. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, When a man makes a special vow which concerns thy valuation of persons to Yahweh, if thy estimation shall be of the male, etc. The expression “thy estimation” is addressed either to Moses or to the priest Leviticus 27:12 : it denoted a legal valuation. The vow of a person was perhaps most frequently made in cases of illness or danger, under the impulse of religions feeling, either in the way of thankfulness for blessings received, or of supplication for something desired. A man might dedicate himself, his wife, his child, or his bondservant. This might have been an old custom; but the Law ordained that he who had taken such a vow should pay a sum of money to the sanctuary, determined according to the age and sex of the person.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 27:3. From twenty years old even unto sixty-fifty shekels — A man from twenty to sixty years of age, if consecrated to the Lord by a vow, might be redeemed for fifty shekels, which, at 3s. each, amounted to 7£. 10s. sterling.