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or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself.

Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him.

If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought.

And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.

And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee--he and his children with him.

"And when a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, then the priest shall set a value for it, whether it is good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

If he who dedicated it wants to redeem his house, then he must add one-fifth of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.

"If a man dedicates to the LORD part of a field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money due according to the years that remain till the Year of Jubilee, and it shall be deducted from your valuation.

"And if a man dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not the field of his possession,

"Nevertheless no devoted offering that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, both man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted offering is most holy to the LORD.

If a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithes, he shall add one-fifth to it.

And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father's house.

These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his father's house.

The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, everyone by his own camp, everyone by his own standard, according to their armies;

"Everyone of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems of his father's house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting.

And his army was numbered at seventy-four thousand six hundred.

And his army was numbered at fifty-four thousand four hundred.

And his army was numbered at fifty-seven thousand four hundred.