(1) יהוה spoke to Moses, saying: (2) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When any party explicitly vows to יהוה the equivalent for a human being, (3) the following scale shall apply: If it is a male from twenty to sixty years of age, the equivalent is fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary weight; (4) if it is a female, the equivalent is thirty shekels.

(5) If the age is from five years to twenty years, the equivalent is twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. (6) If the age is from one month to five years, the equivalent for a male is five shekels of silver, and the equivalent for a female is three shekels of silver. (7) If the age is sixty years or over, the equivalent is fifteen shekels in the case of a male and ten shekels for a female. (8) But if one cannot afford the equivalent, that person shall be presented before the priest, and the priest shall make an assessment; the priest shall make the assessment according to what the vower can afford.

(9) If [the vow concerns] any animal that may be brought as an offering to יהוה, any such that may be given to יהוה shall be holy. (10) One may not exchange or substitute another for it, either good for bad, or bad for good; if one does substitute one animal for another, the thing vowed and its substitute shall both be holy. (11) If [the vow concerns] any impure animal that may not be brought as an offering to יהוה, the animal shall be presented before the priest, (12) and the priest shall assess it. Whether high or low, whatever assessment is set by the priest shall stand; (13) and if one wishes to redeem it, one-fifth must be added to its assessment. (14) If any party consecrates a house to יהוה, the priest shall assess it. Whether high or low, as the priest assesses it, so it shall stand; (15) and if the one who has consecrated the house wishes to redeem it, one-fifth must be added to the sum at which it was assessed, and then it shall be returned.

(16) If any party consecrates to יהוה any land-holding, its assessment shall be in accordance with its seed requirement: fifty shekels of silver to a ḥomer of barley seed. (17) If the land is consecrated as of the jubilee year, its assessment stands. (18) But if the land is consecrated after the jubilee, the priest shall compute the price according to the years that are left until the jubilee year, and its assessment shall be so reduced; (19) and if the one who consecrated the land wishes to redeem it, one-fifth must be added to the sum at which it was assessed, and it shall be passed back. (20) But if the one [who consecrated it] does not redeem the land, and the land is sold to another party, it shall no longer be redeemable: (21) when it is released in the jubilee, the land shall be holy to יהוה, as land proscribed; it becomes the priest’s holding.

(22) If one consecrates to יהוה land that was purchased, which is not one’s land-holding, (23) the priest shall compute the proportionate assessment up to the jubilee year, and the assessment shall be paid as of that day, a sacred donation to יהוה. (24) In the jubilee year the land shall revert to the one from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is. (25) All assessments shall be by the sanctuary weight, the shekel being twenty gerahs.

(26) A firstling of animals, however, which—as a firstling—is יהוה’s, cannot be consecrated by anybody; whether ox or sheep, it is יהוה’s. (27) But if it is of impure animals, it may be ransomed at its assessment, with one-fifth added; if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its assessment. (28) But of all that anyone owns, be it human or beast or land-holding, nothing that has been proscribed for יהוה may be sold or redeemed; every proscribed thing is totally consecrated to יהוה.

(29) No human being who has been proscribed can be ransomed: that person shall be put to death. (30) All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are יהוה’s; they are holy to יהוה. (31) If any party wishes to redeem any tithes, one-fifth must be added to them. (32) All tithes of the herd or flock—of all that passes under the shepherd’s staff, every tenth one—shall be holy to יהוה. (33) One must not look out for good as against bad, or make substitution for it. If one does make substitution for it, then it and its substitute shall both be holy: it cannot be redeemed. (34) These are the commandments that יהוה gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai.

(32) All tithes of the herd or flock—of all that passes under the shepherd’s staff, every tenth one—shall be holy to יהוה. (33) One must not look out for good as against bad, or make substitution for it. If one does make substitution for it, then it and its substitute shall both be holy: it cannot be redeemed. (34) These are the commandments that יהוה gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai.

(19) O ETERNAL One, my strength and my stronghold, My refuge in a day of trouble, To You nations shall come From the ends of the earth and say: Our ancestors inherited utter delusions, Things that are futile and worthless. (20) Can mortals make gods for themselves? No-gods are they! (21) Assuredly, I will teach them, Once and for all I will teach them My power and My might. And they shall learn that My name is GOD. (1) The guilt of Judah is inscribed With a stylus of iron, Engraved with an adamant point On the tablet of their hearts, And on the horns of their altars, (2) While their children remember Their altars and sacred posts, By verdant trees, Upon lofty hills. (3) Because of the sin of your shrines Throughout your borders, I will make your rampart a heap in the field, And all your treasures a spoil. (4) You will forfeit, by your own act, The inheritance I have given you; I will make you a slave to your enemies In a land you have never known. For you have kindled the flame of My wrath That shall burn for all time. (5) Thus said GOD: Cursed is the man who trusts in mortals, Who makes mere flesh his strength, And turns his thoughts from GOD. (6) He shall be like a bush in the desert, Which does not sense the coming of good: It is set in the scorched places of the wilderness, In a barren land without inhabitant. (7) Blessed is the man who trusts in GOD, Whose trust is GOD alone. (8) He shall be like a tree planted by waters, Sending forth its roots by a stream: It does not sense the coming of heat, Its leaves are ever fresh; It has no care in a year of drought, It does not cease to yield fruit. (9) Most devious is the heart; It is perverse—who can fathom it? (10) I GOD probe the heart, Search the mind— To repay each person according to their own ways, With the proper fruit of their deeds. (11) Like a partridge hatching what she did not lay So are those who amass wealth by unjust means; In mid-life it will leave them, And in the end they will be proved fools. (12) O Throne of Glory exalted from of old, Our Sacred Shrine! (13) O Hope of Israel! O ETERNAL One! All who forsake You shall be put to shame, Those in the land who turn from You Shall be doomed, For they have forsaken GOD, The Fount of living waters. (14) Heal me, O ETERNAL One, and let me be healed; Save me, and let me be saved; For You are my glory.

(5) But [first] I will step forward to contend against you, and I will act as a relentless accuser against those who have no fear of Me: Who practice sorcery, who commit adultery, who swear falsely, who cheat laborers of their hire, and who subvert [the cause of] the widow, orphan, and stranger, said GOD of Hosts. (6) For I am GOD—I have not changed; and you are the children of Jacob—you have not ceased to be. (7) From the very days of your ancestors you have turned away from My laws and have not observed them. Turn back to Me, and I will turn back to you—said GOD of Hosts. But you ask, “How shall we turn back?” (8) Ought mortals to defraud God? Yet you are defrauding Me. And you ask, “How have we been defrauding You?” In tithe and contribution. (9) You are suffering under a curse, yet you go on defrauding Me—the whole nation of you. (10) Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, and let there be food in My House, and thus put Me to the test—said GOD of Hosts. I will surely open the floodgates of the sky for you and pour down blessings on you; (11) and I will banish the locusts from you, so that they will not destroy the yield of your soil; and your vines in the field shall no longer miscarry—said GOD of Hosts. (12) And all the nations shall account you happy, for you shall be the most desired of lands—said GOD of Hosts.