And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.
When
Genesis 28:20-22 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep …
Numbers 6:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either man …
Numbers 21:2 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed …
Deuteronomy 23:21-23 When you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not slack …
Judges 11:30,31,39 And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you shall without …
1 Samuel 1:11,28 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed …
a singular vow A vow is a religious promise made to God, for the most part with prayer, and paid with thanksgiving. Vows were either of abstinence (
Leviticus 7:16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, …
Ecclesiastes 5:4,5 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure …
And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
And thy estimation
Leviticus 27:14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy to the LORD, then …
Leviticus 5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy …
Leviticus 6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to the LORD, a ram without …
Numbers 18:16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shall you redeem, …
2 Kings 12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things …
fifty shekels. i.e, at three shillings each,
Leviticus 27:25 And all your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the …
Exodus 30:13 This they shall give, every one that passes among them that are numbered, …
And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
thirty shekels. i.e.,
Zechariah 11:12,13 And I said to them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, …
Matthew 26:15 And said to them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to …
Matthew 27:9,10 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, …
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.
And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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.
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
as thou valuest it, who art the priest. [heb] according to thy estimation, O priest.
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
Leviticus 27:10,15,19 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad …
Leviticus 5:16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he has done in the holy …
Leviticus 6:4,5 Then it shall be, because he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall …
Leviticus 22:14 And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put …
And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.
And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
some part Though the words `some part' are not expressed, yet it is generally allowed that they should be supplied here; as it was not lawful for a man to alienate in this manner his whole patrimony: he might express his good will for the house of God but he must not impoverish his own family.
of a field
Acts 4:34-37 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were …
Acts 5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was …
an homer. or, the land of an homer, etc., i.e, as much land as required a homer of barley to sow it. The homer was very different to the omer; the latter held about three quarts, the former seventy-five gallons three pints.
Isaiah 5:10 Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of …
Ezekiel 45:11-14 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may …
Hosea 3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer …
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
when
Leviticus 25:10,28,31 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout …
devoted
It is cherem, a thing so devoted to God, as never more to be capable of being redeemed.
Leviticus 27:28,29 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to the …
Deuteronomy 13:17 And there shall stick nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that …
Joshua 6:17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, …
Ezra 10:8 And that whoever would not come within three days, according to the …
Ezekiel 44:29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass …
priest's
Numbers 18:14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be yours.
Ezekiel 44:29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass …
And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.
Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.
the firstling [heb] first born, etc. As these firstlings were the Lord's before, it would have been a solemn mockery to pretend to make them a matter of a singular vow; for they were already appointed, if clean, to be sacrificed.
which
Exodus 13:2,12,13 Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the …
Exodus 22:30 Likewise shall you do with your oxen, and with your sheep: seven …
Numbers 18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling …
Deuteronomy 15:19 All the firstling males that come of your herd and of your flock …
And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
no devoted. This is the cherem, the absolute, irredeemable grant to God.
Leviticus 27:21 But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy to …
Exodus 22:20 He that sacrifices to any god, save to the LORD only, he shall be …
Numbers 21:2,3 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed …
Deuteronomy 7:1,2 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go …
Deuteronomy 13:15,16 You shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge …
Deuteronomy 20:16,17 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give …
Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest …
Joshua 6:17-19,26 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, …
Joshua 7:1,11-13,25 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: …
Judges 11:30,31 And Jephthah vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you shall without …
Judges 21:5,11,18 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes …
1 Samuel 14:24-28 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured …
1 Samuel 14:38-45 And Saul said, Draw you near here, all the chief of the people: and …
1 Samuel 15:3,18,32,33 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, …
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …
Acts 23:12-14 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound …
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, …
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Galatians 3:10,13 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for …
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
None
Numbers 21:2,3 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed …
1 Samuel 15:18-23 And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy …
which shall be devoted. That is, either that every person devoted to the service of God shall not be redeemed, but die in that devoted state, or, that such as were devoted to death by appointment and law of God, as the Canaanites were, shall be put to death.
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S: it is holy unto the LORD.
Genesis 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which has delivered your enemies …
Genesis 28:22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house…
Numbers 18:21-24 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel …
Deuteronomy 12:5,6 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
Deuteronomy 14:22,23 You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field …
2 Chronicles 31:5,6,12 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel …
Nehemiah 10:37,38 And that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our offerings, …
Nehemiah 12:44 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, …
Nehemiah 13:5,12 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they …
Malachi 3:8-10 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein …
Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe …
Luke 11:42 But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner …
Luke 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Hebrews 7:5-9 And truly they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office …
And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD.
passeth under the rod. The Rabbins say, that when a man gave the tithe of his sheep of calves, he shut them in one fold, in which was a narrow door, to let out but one at a time. He then stood by the door, with a rod dipped in vermilion in his hand, and as they passed he counted them with the rod; and when the {tenth} came he touched it, by which it was distinguished as the tithe calf, sheep, etc.
Jeremiah 33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in …
Ezekiel 20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you …
Micah 7:14 Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which …
He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
commandments
Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws…
Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which …
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
in mount
Numbers 1:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle …
Galatians 4:24,25 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the …
Hebrews 12:18-25 For you are not come to the mount that might be touched, and that …
Concluding remarks for the book of LEVITICUS
Thus terminates this interesting and important book; a book containing a code of sacrificial, ceremonial, civil, and judicial laws, which, for the purity of their morality, the wisdom, justice, and beneficence of their enactments, and the simplicity, dignity, and impressive nature of their rites, are perfectly unrivalled, and altogether worthy of their Divine Author. All the rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic law are at once dignified and expressive. They point out the holiness of their author, the sinfulness of man, the necessity of an atonement, and the state of moral excellence to which the grace and mercy of the Creator have destined to raise the human soul. They {include}, as well as {point out}, the gospel of the Son of God; from which they receive their consummation and perfection. The sacrifices and oblations were significant of the atonement of Christ; the requisite qualities of these sacrifices were emblematical of his immaculate character; and the prescribed mode in the form of these offerings, and mystical rites ordained, were allusive institutions, calculated to enlighten the apprehensions of the Jews, the Great High Priest, called and prepared of God, who hat an unchangeable priesthood, and is able to save to the uttermost all that come to God by him.
