Leviticus 27:5
in Leviticus 27And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
KJV
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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This verse in Leviticus 27
Commentary
7 notes on this verseFrom five years old - The boy that was vowed might be redeemed for twenty shekels, 3£. sterling; the girl, for ten shekels, just one half, 1£. 10s.
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
from five to twenty years of age
John Wesley notes that parents could vow a child of this age, as 1 Samuel 1 shows, and that their vow bound the child. Adam Clarke observes that the girl's price here is exactly half the boy's. Among adults it was three fifths.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Five years old - At which age they might be vowed by their parents, as appears from 1 Sam. i, 11-28, tho' not by themselves; and the children were obliged by their parents vow, which is not strange considering the parents right to dispose of their children so far as is not contrary to the mind of God.
And if it be from five years old, even unto to twenty years old,....
Infants under five years old were capable of being vowed to God by their parents, even before they were born, as Samuel was, but not to be presented and redeemed till a month old, that, as one sabbath passed over them before they were circumcised, so one new moon might pass over them before they were estimated; and their valuation was but small,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
16 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאִ֨ם | veim | and if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| מִבֶּן־ | miben- | from a son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| חָמֵ֜שׁ | chamesh | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| שָׁנִ֗ים | shanim | years | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וְעַד֙ | vead | and to | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | a son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֣ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| שָׁנָ֔ה | shanah | year[s] | H8141 → | 877 times |
| וְהָיָ֧ה | vehayah | and it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עֶרְכְּךָ֛ | ʾerkekha | valuation of your | H6187 → | 33 times |
| הַזָּכָ֖ר | hazakhar | the male | H2145 → | 82 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֣ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| שְׁקָלִ֑ים | shekalim | shekels | H8255 → | 88 times |
| וְלַנְּקֵבָ֖ה | velanekevah | and of the female | H5347 → | 22 times |
| עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת | ʾaseret | ten | H6235 → | 176 times |
| שְׁקָלִֽים׃ | shekalim | shekels | H8255 → | 88 times |
וְאִ֨םand if
veimH518 →1069 times
מִבֶּן־from a son of
miben-H1121 →4930 times
חָמֵ֜שׁfive
chameshH2568 →343 times
שָׁנִ֗יםyears
shanimH8141 →877 times
וְעַד֙and to
veadH5704 →1261 times
בֶּן־a son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
עֶשְׂרִ֣יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
שָׁנָ֔הyear[s]
shanahH8141 →877 times
וְהָיָ֧הand it will be
vehayahH1961 →3559 times
עֶרְכְּךָ֛valuation of your
ʾerkekhaH6187 →33 times
הַזָּכָ֖רthe male
hazakharH2145 →82 times
עֶשְׂרִ֣יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
שְׁקָלִ֑יםshekels
shekalimH8255 →88 times
וְלַנְּקֵבָ֖הand of the female
velanekevahH5347 →22 times
עֲשֶׂ֥רֶתten
ʾaseretH6235 →176 times
שְׁקָלִֽים׃shekels
shekalimH8255 →88 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Leviticus
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); 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.