Liber Leviticus, 27

1. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen dicens:

1. The LORD said to Moses,

2. “Loquere fi liis Israel et dices ad eos: Homo, qui votum fecerit et spoponderit Deo animas, sub aestimatione dabit pretium:

2. "Say to the people of Israel, When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,

3. si fuerit masculus a vicesimo usque ad sexagesimum annum, dabit quinquaginta siclos argenti ad mensuram sanctuarii;

3. then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

4. si mulier, triginta.

4. If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

5. A quinto autem anno usque ad vicesimum masculus dabit viginti siclos, femina decem;

5. If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

6. ab uno mense usque ad annum quintum pro masculo dabuntur quinque sicli, pro femina tres;

6. If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

7. sexagenarius et ultra masculus dabit quindecim siclos, femina decem.

7. And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

8. Si pauper fuerit et aestimationem reddere non valebit, sistet eum coram sacerdote, et quantum ille aestimaverit et viderit posse reddere, tantum dabit.

8. And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him.

9. Animal autem, quod immolari potest Domino, si quis voverit, sanctum erit

9. "If it is an animal such as men offer as an offering to the LORD, all of such that any man gives to the LORD is holy.

10. et mutari non poterit, id est nec melius malo nec peius bono. Quod si mutaverit, et ipsum quod mutatum est et illud pro quo mutatum est, consecratum erit Domino.

10. He shall not substitute anything for it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he makes any exchange of beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy.

11. Animal immundum, quod immolari Domino non potest, si quis voverit, adducetur ante sacerdotem,

11. And if it is an unclean animal such as is not offered as an offering to the LORD, then the man shall bring the animal before the priest,

12. qui diiudicans utrum bonum an malum sit, sicut statuet pretium, sic erit.

12. and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.

13. Quod si redimere illud voluerit is qui offert, addet supra aestimationem quintam partem.

13. But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.

14. Homo si voverit domum suam et sanctificaverit Domino, considerabit eam sacerdos utrum bona an mala sit, et iuxta pretium, quod ab eo fuerit constitutum, stabit.

14. "When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

15. Sin autem ille, qui voverat, voluerit redimere eam, dabit quintam partem aestimationis supra et habebit domum.

15. And if he who dedicates it wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall be his.

16. Quod si agrum possessionis suae voverit et consecraverit Domino, iuxta mensuram sementis aestimabitur pretium: si triginta homer hordei seritur terra, quinquaginta siclis aestimabitur argenti.

16. "If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land which is his by inheritance, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it; a sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

17. Si statim ab anno iobelei voverit agrum, quanto valere potest, tanto aestimabitur.

17. If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand at your full valuation;

18. Sin autem post aliquantum temporis, supputabit ei sacerdos pecuniam iuxta annorum, qui reliqui sunt, numerum usque ad iobeleum, et detrahetur ex pretio.

18. but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall compute the money-value for it according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from your valuation.

19. Quod si voluerit redimere agrum ille, qui voverat, addet quintam partem aestimatae pecuniae et possidebit eum.

19. And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the valuation in money to it, and it shall remain his.

20. Sin autem noluerit redimere, sed alteri cuilibet vendiderit, ultra redimi non poterit;

20. But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;

21. sed, cum iobelei venerit dies, sanctum erit Domino sicut ager anathematis; sacerdotis erit possessio eius.

21. but the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field that has been devoted; the priest shall be in possession of it.

22. Quod si agrum emptum, qui non est de possessione maiorum, sanctificare voluerit Domino,

22. If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of his possession by inheritance,

23. supputabit ei sacerdos iuxta annorum numerum usque ad iobeleum pretium, quod dabit ille, qui voverat, in ipso die ut sanctum Domino.

23. then the priest shall compute the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the amount of the valuation on that day as a holy thing to the LORD.

24. In anno autem iobelei revertetur ager ad priorem dominum, qui vendiderat eum et habuerat in sortem possessionis suae.

24. In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance.

25. Omnis aestimatio siclo sanctuarii ponderabitur; siclus viginti gera habet.

25. Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.

26. Primogenita, quae de animalibus ad Dominum pertinent, nemo sanctificare poterit et vovere: sive bos sive ovis fuerit, Domini sunt.

26. "But a firstling of animals, which as a firstling belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD's.

27. Quod si immundum est animal, redimet, qui obtulit, iuxta aestimationem et addet quintam partem pretii; si redimere noluerit, vendetur quanto fuerit.

27. And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at your valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at your valuation.

28. Omne anathema, quod aliquis vir consecrat Domino de omni possessione sua, sive homo fuerit sive animal sive ager, non veniet nec redimi poterit; quidquid semel fuerit consecratum, sanctum sanctorum erit Domino.

28. "But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether of man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.

29. Et omnis homo, qui ut anathema offertur, non redimetur, sed morte morietur.

29. No one devoted, who is to be utterly destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall be put to death.

30. Omnes decimae terrae sive de frugibus sive de pomis arborum Domini sunt, sanctum Domino.

30. "All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's; it is holy to the LORD.

31. Si quis autem voluerit redimere aliquid de decimis suis, addet quintam partem.

31. If a man wishes to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.

32. Omnes decimae boves et oves et caprae, quae sub pastoris virga transeunt, quidquid decimum venerit, erit sanctum Domino.

32. And all the tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the LORD.

33. Non discernetur inter bonum et malum nec altero commutabitur; si quis mutaverit, et quod mutatum est et pro quo mutatum est, sanctum erit et non redimetur”.

33. A man shall not inquire whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it; and if he exchanges it, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed."

34. Haec sunt praecepta, quae mandavit Dominus Moysi ad filios Israel in monte Sinai.

34. These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.