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If the person is from five to twenty years old, your assessment for a male is twenty shekels and for a female ten shekels.

If the person is from one month to five years old, your assessment for a male is five silver shekels, and for a female your assessment is three shekels of silver.

If the person is sixty years or more, your assessment is fifteen shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female.

But if one is too poor to pay the assessment, he is to present the person before the priest and the priest will set a value for him. The priest will set a value for him according to what the one making the vow can afford.

He may not replace it or make a substitution for it, either good for bad, or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you.

“If a man consecrates to the Lord any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of fifty silver shekels for every five bushels of barley seed.

But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced.

then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the Lord.

No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.

He is not to inspect whether it is good or bad, and he is not to make a substitution for it. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute will be holy; they cannot be redeemed.”

These are the commands the Lord gave Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.

those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650.

those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

those registered for the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.

those registered for the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.