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'And the priest shall assess it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, assess it, so shall it be.

'But if he should ever want to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it to your assessment.

'Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall assess it as either good or bad; as the priest assesses it, so shall it stand.

'Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.

'Again, if someone consecrates to the LORD part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

'If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your assessment it shall stand.

'If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your assessment.

'If the one who consecrates it should ever want to redeem the field, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may belong to him.

and when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the LORD, like a field banned from secular use; it shall be for the priest as his property.

then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your assessment up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your assessment as holy to the LORD.

'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

'Every assessment of yours, moreover, shall be by the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

'But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your assessment and add to it a fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your assessment.

'Nevertheless, anything which someone sets apart to the LORD for destruction out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold nor redeemed. Anything set apart for destruction is most holy to the LORD.

'No one who may have been set apart among mankind shall be ransomed; he must be put to death.

'If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it.

'For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the LORD.

'He is not to be concerned whether it is good or bad, nor shall he exchange it; yet if he does exchange it, then both it and its substitute shall become holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"

from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their armies.

"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.