Leviticus 27:14-25, King James Version
Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.
Leviticus 27:14-25
Houses and fields receive valuation and redemption rules
A house is valued by the priest and may be bought back
When a man sanctifies his house to be holy unto the LORD, the priest estimates it. If the owner will redeem it, he adds a fifth of the money of the estimation and it is his. Sacred dedication of a house is reversible for the owner at a stated premium, not a secret seizure.
Fields follow seed-measure, Jubilee years, and different titles
If a man sanctifies part of a field of his possession, the estimation is according to the seed: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels. If he sanctifies from the Jubilee year, the full estimation stands; if later, the priest counts the years to Jubilee and reduces the price. Redemption by the owner adds a fifth. If he will not redeem, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is not redeemed anymore; at Jubilee it becomes holy as a devoted field, the priest's possession.
A field he purchased that was not his ancestral land is valued to Jubilee; the person sanctifies it according to the estimation, and at Jubilee it returns to the one from whom it was bought, whose possession the land was. All estimations use the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs.
Holy valuation is not a license to take homes
Inherited land, purchased land, and houses move on different tracks because Jubilee still claims ancestral ground. None of this authorizes a religious leader to take a family's house or field under pressure, or to dress a forced gift as devotion.
How this should shape us
If property is pledged to a holy purpose, publish the valuation, keep a redemption path, and respect the difference between a home and a field. Do not let sacred language become a way to strip a household.
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Best judgment: Interpreters disagree over how personal valuations functioned, the relation to labor value, women's legal position, redemption formulas, field calculations, devoted persons, and the chapter's relationship to the book's conclusion. The fixed schedule's inequality must be named without converting it into an ontology of worth.
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Leviticus 27:14-25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 27:14-25
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 27:14-25
Supports: Open critical orientation to Day of Atonement, holiness, social law, calendar, land, release, covenant, and final valuations.
Yale Bible Study, 'Leviticus Part 2,' complete guide sections on Leviticus 16, the Holiness Code, love of neighbor, festivals, land, covenant, and vows, applied to Leviticus 27:14-25
Supports: Publisher-visible framing of scholarly disagreement about Hebrews and supersessionism, used as a restraint on Christian canonical claims rather than as a complete solution.
Church, 'Hebrews and the Question of Supersessionism,' Oxford 2024 official abstract and metadata, pp. 167-180
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Exact location: Leviticus 27:14-25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
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Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 27:14-25
Open source ↗modern critical open study guide
Leviticus Part 2: Day of Atonement, Holiness Code, and Love of Neighbor
Joel S. Baden and Yale Bible Study
Yale Divinity School, 2023 course edition
Supports: Open critical orientation to Day of Atonement, holiness, social law, calendar, land, release, covenant, and final valuations.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study, 'Leviticus Part 2,' complete guide sections on Leviticus 16, the Holiness Code, love of neighbor, festivals, land, covenant, and vows, applied to Leviticus 27:14-25
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Hebrews and the Question of Supersessionism
Philip Church
The Oxford Handbook of Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles, Oxford University Press, 2024
Supports: Publisher-visible framing of scholarly disagreement about Hebrews and supersessionism, used as a restraint on Christian canonical claims rather than as a complete solution.
Exact location: Church, 'Hebrews and the Question of Supersessionism,' Oxford 2024 official abstract and metadata, pp. 167-180
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