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Leviticus 27:7

in Leviticus 27

And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if it be from sixty years old and upward; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

KJV

And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

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This verse in Leviticus 27

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Sixty years old - The old man and the old woman, being nearly past labor, were nearly of an equal value; hence the one was estimated at fifteen shekels, 2£. 5s., the other at ten shekels, 1£. 10s. This was about the same ratio as that of the children, Lev 27:5, and for the same reason.

This site's exposition

the LORD said to Moses

on Leviticus 27:1-8

This chapter prices vows, the one act in Leviticus no one is commanded to perform. Deuteronomy 23:22 leaves a man free to refrain. The figures run by age and sex from fifty shekels down to three.

This site's exposition

sixty years of age or older

Past sixty the man falls from fifty shekels to fifteen. Matthew Henry reports the Hebrew observation that the old woman here stands at two thirds of the old man. Henry takes from Bishop Patrick the saying that an old woman in a house is a treasure in a house.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And the Hebrews observe that the rate of an aged woman is two parts of three to that of an aged man, so that in that age the female came nearest to the value of the male, which occasioned (as bishop Patrick quotes it here) this saying among them, That an old woman in a house is a treasure in a house.
And if it be from sixty years old and above,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

When a man shall make a singular vow, &c.--Persons have, at all times and in all places, been accustomed to present votive offerings, either from gratitude for benefits received, or in the event of deliverance from apprehended evil.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וְ֠אִםand if

    veimH518 →1069 times

  • מִבֶּן־from a son of

    miben-H1121 →4930 times

  • שִׁשִּׁ֨יםsixty

    shishimH8346 →59 times

  • שָׁנָ֤הyear[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • וָמַ֙עְלָה֙and up -wards

    vama'lahH4605 →

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • זָכָ֔רmale

    zakharH2145 →82 times

  • וְהָיָ֣הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • עֶרְכְּךָ֔valuation your

    ʾerkekhaH6187 →33 times

  • חֲמִשָּׁ֥הfif-

    chamishahH2568 →343 times

  • עָשָׂ֖רteen

    ʾasarH6240 →338 times

  • שָׁ֑קֶלshekel[s]

    shakelH8255 →88 times

  • וְלַנְּקֵבָ֖הand of the female

    velanekevahH5347 →22 times

  • עֲשָׂרָ֥הten

    ʾasarahH6235 →176 times

  • שְׁקָלִֽים׃shekels

    shekalimH8255 →88 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 90:10The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.2 works

The walk

5 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

    Psalms 90:10

    The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

    it leads to

    • James 4:14

      You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

    • Psalms 78:39

      He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

    • 2 Samuel 19:35

      I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men…

    • Deuteronomy 34:7

      Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

    • Genesis 47:9

      “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
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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 (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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