Leviticus 27:25

And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

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In The King James Version

And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

In Context

24In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.

26But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:13And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 27:3And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.

Numbers 18:16Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 27:15-26

Concerning Things Sanctified. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 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. 15 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. 16 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… Read the whole commentary →

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