Leviticus 27:1
Dues. The position which this chapter holds after the formal conclusion, Leviticus 26:46, suggests that it is of a supplementary character. There seems, however, no reason to doubt its Mosaic origin.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dues. The position which this chapter holds after the formal conclusion, Leviticus 26:46, suggests that it is of a supplementary character. There seems, however, no reason to doubt its Mosaic origin.... [ Continue Reading ]
Rather, When a man makes a special vow which concerns thy valuation of persons to Yahweh, if thy estimation shall be of the male, etc. The expression “thy estimation” is addressed either to Moses or to the priest Leviticus 27:12 : it denoted a legal valuation. The vow of a person was perhaps most fr... [ Continue Reading ]
The relative values of the persons appear to be regulated according to an estimate of the probable value of their future work: AGES MALE FEMALE... [ Continue Reading ]
IF HE BE POORER THAN THY ESTIMATION - Too poor (to pay) thy valuation. Compare Leviticus 27:7, Leviticus 27:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTIFY - i. e. vow to devote. This law relates to houses in the country Leviticus 25:31, which were under the same general law as the land itself, with a right of redemption for the inheritor until the next Jubilee. See Leviticus 27:17. For houses in walled towns the right of redemption lasted for... [ Continue Reading ]
SOME PART OF A FIELD OF HIS POSSESSION - Rather, a part of the land of his inheritance. THE SEED THEREOF - i. e. the quantity of seed required to sow it properly. Thus the value of about 5 1/2 bushels (an homer) was about 6 pounds, 9 shillings, 2d. (50 shekels. See Exodus 38:24.)... [ Continue Reading ]
DEVOTED - See Leviticus 27:28 note.... [ Continue Reading ]
On the shekel and the gerah, see Exodus 30:13, note; Exodus 38:24, note.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEVOTED THING - The primary meaning of the Heb. word חרם _chērem_ is something cut off, or shut up. Its specific meaning in the Law is, that which is cut off from common use and given up in some sense to Yahweh, without the right of recal or commutation. It is applied to a field wholly appropriated... [ Continue Reading ]
WHATSOEVER PASSETH UNDER THE ROD - According to rabbinical tradition, the animals to be tithed were enclosed in a pen, and as they went out one by one at the opening, every tenth animal was touched with a rod dipped in vermilion. Compare the margin reference. For a more full explanation of what rel... [ Continue Reading ]