Leviticus 27:11-21

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 27:1-13

This is part of the law concerning singular vows, extraordinary ones, which though God did not expressly insist on, yet, if they were consistent with and conformable to the general precepts, he would be well pleased with. Note, We should not only ask, What must we do, but, What may we do, for the glory and honour of God? As the liberal devises liberal things (Isa. 32:8), so the pious devises pious things, and the enlarged heart would willingly do something extraordinary in the service of so... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Leviticus 27:14-25

Here is the law concerning real estates dedicated to the service of God by a singular vow. I. Suppose a man, in his zeal for the honour of God, should sanctify his house to God (Lev. 27:14), the house must be valued by the priest, and the money got by the sale of it was to be converted to the use of the sanctuary, which by degrees came to be greatly enriched with dedicated things, 1 Kgs. 15:15. But, if the owner be inclined to redeem it himself, he must not have it so cheap as another, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:11

And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord ,.... Any creature, excepting a dog, the price of which was not to be brought into the house of the Lord; besides oxen, sheep, goats, rams, and lambs; though some understand it even of such that have blemishes on them, and so not fit to be offered unto the Lord; so Jarchi and others F24 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Menachot, c. 12. sect. 1. : then he shall present the beast before the priest ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:12

And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad ,.... Put a price upon it according to its worth, as it shall appear to him: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be ; that shall be the price at which it shall be sold, not to the owner or devoter of it, for he must give more, as appears from Leviticus 27:13 ; but, as Jarchi observes, to all other men who come to purchase it. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:13

But if he will at all redeem it ,.... The owner of it, or he that has devoted it, if he is determined to have it again at any rate: then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation ; he shall give the full price for it, as rated by the priest, and for which it might be sold to another man, and a fifth part of the value of it besides; this was done that the full price might be paid for it, the priest not knowing, as it might be, the worth of it so well as the owner; and that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:14

And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord ,.... Shall set it apart for sacred service, devote it to holy uses, so that it may be sold, and the money laid out in sacrifices, the repairs of the temple, &c.; under this any other goods are comprehended, concerning which the Jews say,"he that sanctifieth his goods, and his wife's dowry is upon him, or he is a debtor; his wife cannot demand her, dowry out of that which is sanctified, nor a creditor his debt; but if he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:15

And if he that sanctifieth it will redeem his house ,.... An house set apart for holy uses might be redeemed, either by another paying the price set upon it by the priest, or by the original owner of it paying a fifth part more; and this was the case, whether of houses in walled cities or in villages: so Maimonides says,"he that sanctifies his house, whether it be one of those in walled cities, or of those in villages, it may be always redeemed; he that redeems one out of the hand of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:16

And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession ,.... That which he enjoyed by inheritance from his father, to distinguish it from a field of his own purchase, as in Leviticus 27:22 ; and which might be devoted, not all of it, but a part of it; partly that he might have something to live upon, or to improve for a livelihood for himself and family, and partly that estates might not be alienated entirely from their families and tribes in which they were: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:17

If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee ,.... The very year, as Aben Ezra, while it is current, or when it is past, and he immediately sanctifies it for an holy use, and one comes to redeem it, as Jarchi says, as soon as ever it is devoted, and a priest has valued it, and there is a purchaser of it: according to thy estimation it shall stand ; what price soever the priest set upon it, that it was to go at, and he that had a mind to purchase it might have it for it, unless it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 27:18

But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee ,.... Some years after it, more or fewer, or it may be, when half way towards another jubilee, or nearer: then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee ; thus, for instance, if it only required an homer of barley to sow it, and the whole value of it from jubilee to jubilee was but fifty shekels of silver; then supposing it to be sanctified in the middle of the fifty... read more

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