1. The Lord gave Moses
2. the following regulations for the people of Israel. When a person has been given to the Lord in fulfilment of a special vow, that person may be set free by the payment of the following sums of money,
3-7. according to the official standard:— adult male, twenty to sixty years old: fifty pieces of silver— adult female: thirty pieces of silver— young male, five to twenty years old: twenty pieces of silver— young female: ten pieces of silver— infant male under five: five pieces of silver— infant female: three pieces of silver— male above sixty years of age: fifteen pieces of silver— female above sixty: ten pieces of silver
8. If anyone who made the vow is too poor to pay the standard price, he or she shall bring the person to the priest, and the priest will set a lower price, according to the ability of that person to pay.
9. If the vow concerns an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord, then every gift made to the Lord is sacred,
10. and anyone who made the vow may not substitute another animal for it. If he does, both animals belong to the Lord.
11. But if the vow concerns a ritually unclean animal, which is not acceptable as an offering to the Lord, the man shall take the animal to the priest.