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Leviticus 27:23

in Leviticus 27

then the priest shall calculate for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation unto the year of jubilee: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto Jehovah.

KJV

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.

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This verse in Leviticus 27

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Thy estimation - That is, the price which thou, O Moses, by my direction hast set in such cases. To the jubilee - As much as it is worth, for that space of time between the making of the vow and the year of jubilee: for he had no right to it for any longer time, as the next verse tells us.

This site's exposition

a field which he hath bought

on Leviticus 27:22-25

A field a man bought is handled on different terms from a field he inherited. He pays its worth up to the jubilee on the day he vows it, and at the jubilee the land goes back to the family it came from, so he gives away only the years he actually holds. Verse 25 fastens every figure in the chapter to one weight, the shekel of the sanctuary at twenty gerahs, which Exodus 30:13 had already fixed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was supposed that those who, by the blessing of God, had grown so rich as to become purchasers would think themselves obliged in gratitude to sanctify some part of their purchase, at least (and here they are not limited, but they might, if they pleased, sanctify the whole), to the service of God.
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of jubilee,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some aprt of a field of his possession, &c.--In the case of acquired property in land, if not redeemed, it returned to the donor at the Jubilee; whereas the part of a hereditary estate, which had been vowed, did not revert to the owner, but remained attached in perpetuity to the sanctuary.

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The words behind it

16 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.

  • וְחִשַּׁב־and he will calculate

    vechishav-H2803 →124 times

  • ל֣וֹfor <the> himself

    lo

  • הַכֹּהֵ֗ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • מִכְסַ֣ת[the] amount of

    mikhsatH4373 →

  • הָֽעֶרְכְּךָ֔<the> valuation your

    haerkekhaH6187 →33 times

  • עַ֖דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • שְׁנַ֣ת[the] year of

    shenatH8141 →877 times

  • הַיֹּבֵ֑לthe jubilee

    haiyovelH3104 →27 times

  • וְנָתַ֤ןand he will give

    venatanH5414 →2011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעֶרְכְּךָ֙<the> valuation your

    haerkekhaH6187 →33 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַה֔וּא<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

  • קֹ֖דֶשׁa holy thing

    kodeshH6944 →469 times

  • לַיהוָֽה׃to Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

3 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 27:18

    But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your valuation will be…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 25:15–16

      You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.

    • Leviticus 25:51–52

      If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

    • Leviticus 25:27

      he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 27 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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