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Leviticus 27:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
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Quick Meaning
This verse sets the adult female valuation at thirty shekels without measuring human worth.
Read It With
- Leviticus 27:1-8
Use 27:1-8 as the reading frame for Leviticus 27:4. The verse sets the adult female valuation at thirty shekels without measuring human worth, while the complete unit shows that Male and female valuations vary by age, while a person too poor for the schedule stands before the priest for a means-based assessment.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse sets the adult female valuation at thirty shekels without measuring human worth; Leviticus 27:1-8 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
Follow the Context
- The unit opens the case or movement named “Personal vows receive fixed valuations and poverty review.”
- Male and female valuations vary by age, while a person too poor for the schedule stands before the priest for a means-based assessment.
- The monetary schedule reflects an ancient economy and does not price human dignity or make women, children, elders, or poor people worth less. That boundary keeps ritual status, moral guilt, ancient description, enduring truth, and modern application from being collapsed.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“thirty shekels”
In plain language: The fixed female valuation differs from the male amount in this vow schedule.
Age, sex, and poverty affect assessed redemption sums.
Why it matters: The amount is not a measure of human dignity.
How certain? very strongWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Leviticus 27:4 does not teach that women have less human, spiritual, intellectual, economic, or social worth than men.
What Remains True
The lower female valuation belongs to an ancient sanctuary schedule and does not state that women possess less human worth.
How It Can Shape Life
- Reject pay, care, leadership, or spiritual systems that treat women as less valuable because of this table.
Teach It Back
Explain Leviticus 27:4's contribution to Leviticus 27:1-8. Name the category involved, what the surrounding verses add, any material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 27:1-8 — Personal vows receive fixed valuations and poverty reviewSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
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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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: Leviticus 27:1-8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 27:1-8
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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 27:1-8
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