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If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

If he is too poor to pay the conversion value, he must stand the person before the priest and the priest will establish his conversion value; according to what the man who made the vow can afford, the priest will establish his conversion value.

"‘If a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord , the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. Just as the priest establishes its conversion value, thus it will stand.

If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.

"‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.

If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand,

but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

"‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

"‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord .

If a man redeems part of his tithe, however, he must add one fifth to it.

And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.

"The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

"Every one of the Israelites must camp under his standard with the emblems of his family; they must camp at some distance around the tent of meeting.

Those numbered in his division are 74,600.

Those numbered in his division are 54,400.

Those numbered in his division are 57,400.

Those numbered in his division are 46,500.

Those numbered in his division are 59,300.

Those numbered in his division are 45,650.