Lévitique 27:8

Darby's French Translation

Et s'il est plus pauvre que ton estimation, on le fera se tenir devant le sacrificateur, et le sacrificateur en fera l'estimation: le sacrificateur en fera l'estimation à raison de ce que peut atteindre la main de celui qui a fait le voeu.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Si celui qui a fait le vœu est trop pauvre pour payer ton estimation, on le présentera devant le sacrificateur, qui fixera son prix; le sacrificateur fixera un prix selon les moyens de celui qui a fait le vœu.

Louis Segond (1910)
Si celui qui a fait le voeu est trop pauvre pour payer ton estimation, on le présentera au sacrificateur, qui le taxera, et le sacrificateur fera une estimation en rapport avec les ressources de cet homme.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et s'il est plus pauvre que [ne monte] ton estimation, il se présentera devant le Sacrificateur qui en fera l'estimation, et le Sacrificateur en fera l'estimation selon ce que pourra fournir celui qui a fait le vœu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

poorer: Leviticus 5:7, Leviticus 12:8, Leviticus 14:21, Leviticus 14:22, Mark 14:7, Luke 21:1-4, 2 Corinthians 8:12

according: Jeremiah 5:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:17 - as he is able 2 Kings 7:5 - behold

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if he be poorer than thy estimation,.... If he is so poor that he is not able to pay the value that, is set upon him, according to the rules before given:

then he shall present himself before the priest; that has made the estimation, according to the above directions, observing the difference of years, and of male and female; but if a person could not pay the said sums that were appointed, he might apply to the priest, and tell his case:

and the priest shall value him; put a price upon him he is able to pay, as follows:

according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him; he was to examine into his circumstances, and as they appeared to him he was to put a value on him, which was to be paid, but not less than, a shekel; for if he could not pay that, it was to remain as a debt until he could q; and it was the ability of him that made the vow that was to be inquired into, and according to which the estimation was to be made, and not of him that was vowed: so it is said in the Misnah,

"ability is regarded in the vower, and years in the vowed, and estimations in the estimated, and according to the tithe of the estimation: ability in the vower, how? a poor man that estimates a rich man, pays the value of a poor man; and a rich man that estimates a poor man, pays the value of a rich man: if he is poor and afterwards becomes rich, or rich and afterwards poor, he pays the price of a rich man r;''

but the sense which Jarchi gives is, that a priest in such a case was to judge according to what a man has, and so order him to pay, but was to leave him so as he might live, a bed and bolster, and working tools, and if he had an ass he might leave him that.

q Maimon. Hilchot Eracin, c. 3. sect. 4. r Misn. Eracin, c. 4. sect. 1, 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If he be poorer than thy estimation - Too poor (to pay) thy valuation. Compare Leviticus 27:7, Leviticus 27:11.