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free of all encumbrances, even that of its being dedicated to him of whom it was bought. The value of the shekel by which all these estimations were to be made is here ascertained (Le 27:25); it shall be twenty gerahs, and every gerah was sixteen barley-corns. This was fixed before (Ex 30:13); and, whereas there had been some alterations, it is again fixed in the laws of Ezekiel's visionary temple (Eze 45:12), to denote that the gospel should reduce things to their ancient standard.
17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy
estimation it shall stand.
18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall
reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then
he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field
to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto
the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
22 And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought,
which is not of the fields of his possession;
23 then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation,
even unto the year of the jubilee: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.
24 In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom
it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of
the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord’s firstling,
no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord’s.
Here is, a caution given that no man should make such a jest of sanctifying things to the Lord as to sanctify any firstling