Leviticus 27:8
If he be poor, and not able to pay tile estimation, he shall stand before tile priest: and as much as he shall value him at, and see him able to pay, so much shall he give.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7A man that is sixty years old or upward, shall give fifteen aisles: a woman ten.
9But a beast that may be sacrificed to the Lord, if ally one shall vow, shall be holy,
Cross References
Leviticus 5:7But if he be not able to offer a beast, let him offer two turtles, or two young pigeons to the Lord, one for sin, and the other for a holocaust,
Leviticus 12:8And if her hand find not sufficiency, and she is not able to offer a lamb, she shall take two turtles, or two young pigeons, one for a holocaust, and another for sin: and the priest shall pray for her, and so she shall be cleansed.
2 Kings 7:5So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp, And when they were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found no man there.
Mark 14:7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
2 Corinthians 8:12For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath, not according to that which he hath not.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 27:2-14
The Law Concerning Vows. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 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. 3 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. 4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even… Read the whole commentary →