Leviticus 27:17

Verse

If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.

American Standard Version (1901)

If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision.

If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning, as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.

Free Bible Version

If you dedicate your field during the Jubilee Year, the value will be the full amount calculated.

Geneva Bible 1599

If he dedicate his field immediatly from the yeere of Iubile, it shall bee worth as thou doest esteeme it.

King James (Authorized) Version

If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

One Unity Resource Bible

If he dedicates his field from the Jubilee Year ·Shofar Year·, according to your valuation it shall stand.

Translation for Translators

If he dedicates the land during the Year of Celebration, its full value will be that amount.

Unlocked Literal Bible

If he sets apart his field during the year of Jubilee, the valuation of it will stand.

Noah Webster Bible

If he shall sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

World English Bible

If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

Young's Literal Translation

if from the year of the jubilee he sanctify his field, according to thy valuation it standeth;

Context

Rules about Valuations

¹⁶If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.¹⁷If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.

Summary

In Leviticus 27:17, the value of the field is determined according to the amount of seed required to sow it. This verse reflects the importance of the land and its productivity in the agricultural society of ancient Israel. It emphasizes the significance of proper stewardship and valuation of resources, highlighting the principles of fairness and equity in transactions. By linking the value of the field to its potential yield, this verse underscores the practical and economic aspects of land ownership within the context of God's laws for His people.

Commentary

John Gill

John Gill Bible Commentary

But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee,.... Some years after it, more or fewer, or it may be, when half way towards another jubilee, or nearer: then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee; thus, for instance, if it only required an homer of barley to sow it, and the whole value of it from jubilee to jubilee was but fifty shekels of silver; then supposing it to be sanctified in the middle of the fifty years, or at twenty five years' end, it was to be reckoned at twenty five shekels, and sold for that money, and so in proportion, reckoning a shekel for a year: and it shall be abated from thy estimation; not the year of jubilee, but a shekel for every year was to be deducted from the original value of fifty shekels, according to the number of years that had passed or were to come.