15. If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more.
16. “If a person gives part of a field to the Lord as something holy, its value will be based on the seed planted on it. Ground planted with 2 quarts of barley will be worth 20 ounces of silver.
17. If you give your field in the jubilee year, it will have its full value.
18. But if you give the field after the jubilee year, the priest will estimate its value based on the number of years left until the next jubilee year.
19. If you want to buy it back, you must pay its full value plus one-fifth more.
20. But if you don’t buy it back and it is sold to someone else, you cannot buy it back.
21. When the field is released in the jubilee year, it will be holy like a field claimed by the Lord. It will become the property of the priest.
22. You may give a field you bought (not one that was a part of your family property) to the Lord as something holy.
23. The priest must figure out the field’s value until the jubilee year. You will pay its value on that day as something holy, belonging to the Lord.
24. In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property.
25. “All values will be set using the standard weight of the holy place.
26. “A firstborn animal already belongs to the Lord because it was born first. Therefore, it cannot be set apart as holy. Whether it is a bull or a sheep, it belongs to the Lord.
27. But if it is an unclean animal, it must be bought back. The payment will be its full value plus one-fifth more. If it is not bought back, it must be sold at the value given it.
28. “However, everything dedicated to the Lord for destruction—a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you—must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to the Lord.
29. People dedicated this way cannot be bought back. They must be put to death.
30. “One-tenth of what comes from the land, whether grain or fruit, is holy and belongs to the Lord.