I will spurn you. 31I will lay your cities in ruin and make your sanc- tuaries desolate, and I will not savor your pleasing odors. 32I will make the land desolate, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled by it. 33And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheath the sword against you. Your land shall become a desolation and your cities a ruin.
34Then shall the land make up for its sabbath years throughout the time that it is desolate and you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land rest and make up for its sabbath years. 35Throughout the time that it is desolate, it shall observe the rest that it did not observe in your sabbath years while you were dwelling upon it. 36As for those of you who survive, I will cast a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight. Fleeing as though from the sword, they shall fall though none pursues. 37With no one pur- suing, they shall stumble over one another as before the sword. You shall not be able to stand your ground before your enemies, 38but shall perish among the nations; and the land of your enemies shall consume you.
39Those of you who survive shall be heartsick over their iniquity in the land of your enemies; more, they shall be heartsick over the iniquities of their fathers; 40and they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in that they trespassed against Me, yea, were hostile to Me. 41When I, in turn, have been hostile to them and have removed them into the land of their enemies, then at last shall their obduratec heart humble itself, and they shall atone for their iniquity. 42Then will I remember My covenant with Jacob; I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
43For the land shall be forsaken of them, making up for its sabbath years by being desolate of them, while they atone for their iniquity; for the abundant reason that they rejected My rules and spurned My laws. 44Yet, even then, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or spurn them so as to destroy them, annulling My covenant with them: for I the LORD am their God. 45I will remember in their favor the covenant with the ancients, whom I freed from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God: I, the LORD.
46These are the laws, rules, and instructions that the LORD established, through Moses on Mount Sinai, between Himself and the Israelite people.
27 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When anyone explicitlya vows to the LORD the equivalent for a human being, 3the following scale shall apply: If it is a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the equivalent is fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary weight; 4if it is a female, the equivalent is thirty shekels. 5If the age is from five years to twenty years, the equivalent is twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. 6If the age is from one month to five years, the equivalent for a male is five shekels of silver, and the equivalent for a female is three shekels of silver. 7If the age is sixty years or over, the equivalent is fifteen shekels in the case of a male and ten shekels for a female. 8But if one cannot afford the equivalent, he shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall assess him; the priest shall assess him according to what the vower can afford.
9If [the vow concerns] any animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such that may be given to the LORD shall be holy. 10One may not exchange or substitute another for it, either good for bad, or bad for good; if one does substitute one animal for another, the thing vowed and its substitute shall both be holy. 11If [the vow concerns] any unclean animal that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal shall be presented before the priest, 12and the priest shall assess it. Whether b-high or low,-b whatever assessment is set by the priest shall stand; 13and if he wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to its as- sessment.
14If anyone consecrates his house to the LORD, the priest shall assess it. Whether b-high or low,-b as the priest assesses it, so it shall stand; 15and if he who has consecrated his house wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to the sum at which it was assessed, and it shall be his.
16If anyone consecrates to the LORD any land that he holds, its assess- ment shall be in accordance with its seed requirement: fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed. 17If he consecrates his land as of the jubilee year, its assessment stands. 18But if he consecrates his land after the jubilee, the priest shall compute the price according to the years that are left until the jubilee year, and its assessment shall be so reduced; 19and if he who consecrated the land wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to the sum at which it was assessed, and it shall pass to him. 20But if he does not redeem the land, and the land is sold to another, it shall no longer be redeemable: 21when it is released in the jubilee, the land shall be holy to the LORD, as land proscribed; it becomes the priest’s holding.
22If he consecrates to the LORD land that he purchased, which is not land of his holding, 23the priest shall compute for him the proportionate assessment up to the jubilee year, and he shall pay the assessment as of that day, a sacred donation to the LORD. 24In the jubilee year the land shall revert to him from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is. 25All assessments shall be by the sanctuary weight, the shekel being twenty gerahs.
26A firstling of animals, however, which—as a firstling—is the LORD’s, cannot be consecrated by anybody; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s. 27But if it is of unclean animals, it may be ransomed as its assessment, with one-fifth added; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its assessment.
28But of all that anyone owns, be it man or beast or land of his holding, nothing that he has proscribed for the LORD may be sold or redeemed; every proscribed thing is totally consecrated to the LORD. 29No human being who has been proscribed can be ransomed: he shall be put to death.
30All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are the LORD’s; they are holy to the LORD. 31 If anyone wishes to redeem any of his tithes, he must add one-fifth to them. 32All tithes of the herd or flock—of all that passes under the shepherd’s staff, every tenth one—shall be holy to the LORD. 33He must not look out for good as against bad, or make substitution for it. If he does make substitution for it, then it and its substitute shall both be holy: it cannot be redeemed.
34These are the commandments that the LORD gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai.
a-a Lit. “you shall offer your.”
b Others “feathers.”
a Exact meaning of Heb. uncertain.
a Others “peace offering.” Exact meaning of shelamim uncertain.
a So traditionally; more precisely “offering of purgation.”
b Cf. 1.11.
c Lit. “people of the country.”
a Namely, against one who withholds testimony.
b Lit. “utters with his lips.”
c I.e., in currency; cf. v. 15.
d Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
e I.e., in currency; cf. v. 15.
a Or “their.”
b Meaning of Heb. tuphine uncertain.
c Cf. 1.11.
a Lit. “offering.”
b Heb. sheqes. lit. “abomination”; several mss. and ancient versions read sheres “swarming things.”
c I.e., hard, coarse fat (suet); cf. 3.3–5.
d Lit. “anointment,” i.e., accruing from anointment.
c Lit. “brought forward.”
a See note on Exod. 28.30.
b Or “lobe.”
c Or, vocalizing suwwethi, “I have been commanded”; cf. below, v. 35 and 10.13.
a See Exod. 29. 38–46.
b This word moved up from v. 21 for clarity.
a-a Others “before.”
b-b Or “dishevel your hair.”
c As is done in the case of the most solemn offerings; see 4.3–21; 16.11–17.
a Lit. “brings up.”
b A number of these cannot be identified with certainty.
c I.e., if the food then came in contact with the carcass of any animal named in vv. 29–30.
d I.e., a vessel that had become contaminated by such contact.
a Heb. tazria‘, lit. “brings forth seed.”
b Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
c See note at 4.3.
a Or “he shall be brought.”
b Heb. sara’ath is used for a variety of diseases. Where a human being is declared unclean by reason of sara’ath, the traditional translation “leprosy” has been retained without regard to modern medical terminology.
c See note a at 12.2.
d-d Others “quick raw flesh.”
e See note at 10.6.
f Or “yellow.”
g Meaning of Heb. pehetheth uncertain.
a Cf. note a at 13.2.
b See 1.11; 4.23.
c Or “yellowish.”
d Meaning of Heb. sheqa‘aruroth uncertain.
e Lit. “dust,” “mud.”
a Lit. “flesh.”
a Lit. “at any time.”
b Moved up from v. 8 for clarity.
c Meaning of Heb. ‘itti uncertain.
a-a A man and his wife are one flesh (Gen. 2.24). even if he should die or divorce her.
b Meaning uncertain.
a-a Others “go about as a talebearer among”; meaning of Heb. uncertain.
b-b Lit.
