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Leviticus 27:8

in Leviticus 27

But if the one making the vow is too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one making the vow can afford.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value him.

KJV

But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

This verse in Leviticus 27

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, God expects and requires from men according to what they have, and not according to what they have not, Luke xxi. The case is put of beasts vowed to God, 1. If it was a clean beast, such as was offered in sacrifice, it must not be redeemed, nor any equivalent given for it: It shall be holy,

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

too poor to pay the valuation

The poor man's vow still stands, and only its price moves. Matthew Henry draws the rule that God requires of men according to what they have, and cites Luke 21. That chapter opens with the widow and her two small coins.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But if he be poorer than thy estimation,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Blessed be God, there is a way of sanctifying our houses to be holy unto the Lord, without either selling them or buying them. If we and our houses serve the Lord, if religion rule in them, and we put away iniquity far from them, and have a church in our house, holiness to the Lord is written upon it, it is his, and he will dwell with us in it.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

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.
If he be poorer than thy estimation - Too poor (to pay) thy valuation. Compare Lev 27:7, Lev 27:11.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וְאִם־and if

    veim-H518 →1069 times

  • מָ֥ךְ[is too] impoverished

    makhH4134 →5 times

  • הוּא֙he

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • מֵֽעֶרְכֶּ֔ךָfor valuation your

    meerkekhaH6187 →33 times

  • וְהֶֽעֱמִידוֹ֙and he will station him

    veheemidoH5975 →521 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֔ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • וְהֶעֱרִ֥יךְand he will evaluate

    veheerikhH6186 →74 times

  • אֹת֖וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֑ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פִּ֗י[the] mouth of

    piH6310 →498 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤ר[that] which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • תַּשִּׂיג֙it will reach

    tasigH5381 →50 times

  • יַ֣ד[the] hand of

    yadH3027 →1618 times

  • הַנֹּדֵ֔רthe [one who] vows

    hanoderH5087 →

  • יַעֲרִיכֶ֖נּוּhe will evaluate him

    yaarikhenuH6186 →74 times

  • הַכֹּהֵֽן׃ סthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Mark 14:7

    The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 15:11

      For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your…

    • Matthew 26:11

      The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 8:12

    For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

    it leads to

    • Mark 12:42–44

      Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.

    • Luke 21:1–4

      Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,

    • Exodus 35:29

      So all the men and women of the Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had commanded them to do.

    • 2 Corinthians 9:7

      Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

    • Exodus 35:21–22

      And everyone whose heart stirred him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its services, and for the…

  • Through

    Leviticus 12:8

    But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 5:7

      If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. 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); 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.