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Leviticus 27:14

in Leviticus 27

Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto Jehovah, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

KJV

And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

This verse in Leviticus 27

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Shall sanctify his house - The yearly rent of which, when thus consecrated, went towards the repairs of the tabernacle, which was the house of the Lord.

This site's exposition

sanctify his house to be holy

on Leviticus 27:14-21

A house is valued by the priest and bought back with a fifth added, and a field of a man's inheritance is valued by the seed it takes, an homer of barley seed at fifty shekels. The price is reckoned against the jubilee clock, standing full when the vow falls at the jubilee and abated by the years already spent. Verses 20 and 21 give the one route by which inherited land leaves a family for good, since a field left unredeemed becomes the priest's possession at the jubilee. Leviticus 25:13 sends every man back to his possession in that year, and here the same year takes a field away.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), the house must be valued by the priest, and the money got by the sale of it was to be converted to the use of the sanctuary, which by degrees came to be greatly enriched with dedicated things, 1 Kings xv.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Sanctify his house - By a vow, for of that way and manner of sanctification he speaks in this whole chapter.
And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Sanctify - i. e. vow to devote. This law relates to houses in the country Lev 25:31, which were under the same general law as the land itself, with a right of redemption for the inheritor until the next Jubilee. See Lev 27:17-19. For houses in walled towns the right of redemption lasted for only one year Lev 25:29.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאִ֗ישׁand anyone

    veishH3761663 times

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H35884482 times

  • יַקְדִּ֨שׁhe will set apart as holy

    yakdishH6942171 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • בֵּית֥וֹhouse his

    beitoH10042046 times

  • קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙a holy thing

    kodeshH6944469 times

  • לַֽיהוָ֔הto Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

  • וְהֶעֱרִיכוֹ֙and he will evaluate it

    veheerikhoH618674 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548750 times

  • בֵּ֥יןbetween

    beinH996407 times

  • ט֖וֹבgood

    tovH2896538 times

  • וּבֵ֣יןand between

    uveinH996407 times

  • רָ֑עbad

    ra'H7451662 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רjust as

    kaasherH8345497 times

  • יַעֲרִ֥יךְhe will evaluate

    yaarikhH618674 times

  • אֹת֛וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548750 times

  • כֵּ֥ןso

    kenH3651771 times

  • יָקֽוּם׃it will stand

    yakumH6965628 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

6 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 27:21

    When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 44:29

      They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 18:14

      Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.

    • Leviticus 25:28

      But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so…

    • Leviticus 25:10

      So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and…

    • Leviticus 25:31

      But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

  • Through

    Numbers 18:14

    Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 27:28

      Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.