27:23Leviticus 27:23

The rule is for a field or land dedicated by vow: the priest reckons the worth of the estimation even unto the year of jubilee, and the one who dedicated it gives that estimation in that day as a holy thing unto the Lord.ST Feb 10, 1909+3 It belongs to the laws concerning vows and tithes, to the law of tithing, and to the laws concerning redemption.ST Feb 10, 1909+3 When one who has vowed land or a house to God wishes to retain it, he pays the priest's reckoned valuation as holy to the Lord, with a fifth added to make the vow good and to remind him that what was consecrated is sacred.ST Sep 6, 1883 The priest's calculation is made according to the years remaining until the jubilee, so the required value is reduced as the jubilee approaches. This reduction shows that landowners may need to accept less in order to sell their property and support God's work.

The same reckoning through the year of jubilee and payment as holy applies when a singular vow concerns redeeming a person of one's household.RH Jun 17, 1873 Only clean beasts were allowed for sacrifice, while the firstborn of people and unclean animals had to be redeemed rather than sacrificed, so devotion to the Lord's service did not mean offering a person as a burnt offering.RH Jun 17, 1873 The chapter teaches that the tithe belongs to the Lord and that civil government has no claim over it.ST Mar 6, 1907 The chapter is an example of anathema as something set apart, separated, and devoted for extirpation, destruction, consumption, and annihilation.ST Jan 18, 1877+1 Anathema means a curse and a ban, illustrating the absolute, irrevocable, and entire separation of a person from the communion of the faithful, from the number of the living, or from the privileges of society, and the devoting of any man, animal, city, or thing to destruction.RH Apr 30, 1867