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24 At the year of Jubilee, the land will go to the family that originally owned the land.

25 “You must use the official measure in paying these prices. The shekel by that measure weighs 20 gerahs.[a]

Value of Animals

26 “You can give cattle and sheep as special gifts to the Lord. But if the animal is the firstborn, it already belongs to the Lord. So you cannot give these animals as special gifts.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 27:25 gerahs 1/50 of an ounce (.6 g).

24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought,(A) the one whose land it was. 25 Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel,(B) twenty gerahs(C) to the shekel.

26 “‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord;(D) whether an ox[a] or a sheep, it is the Lord’s.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 27:26 The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female.