Leviticus 27:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if the owner has a desire to get back his house, let him give a fifth more than your value, and it will be his.

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  • Lev 27:13 : 13 But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.

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  • Lev 27:12-14
    3 verses
    90%

    12And let the priest put a value on it, if it is good or bad; whatever value the priest puts on it, so will it be.

    13But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.

    14And if a man has given his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest will put a value on it, if it is good or bad; as the priest gives decision so will the value be fixed.

  • Lev 27:16-28
    13 verses
    89%

    16And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

    17If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision.

    18But if he gives his field after the year of Jubilee, the amount of the money will be worked out by the priest in relation to the number of years till the coming year of Jubilee, and the necessary amount will be taken off your value.

    19And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.

    20But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

    21But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.

    22And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;

    23Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.

    24In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.

    25And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

    26But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.

    27And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing.

    28But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

  • Lev 27:31-32
    2 verses
    81%

    31And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more.

    32And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord.

  • Lev 25:24-33
    10 verses
    77%

    24Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

    25If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

    26And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

    27Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

    28But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

    29And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

    30And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

    31But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

    32But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

    33And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

  • Lev 27:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.

    8But if he is poorer than the value which you have put on him, then let him be taken to the priest, and the priest will put a value on him, such as it is possible for him to give.

    9And if it is a beast of which men make offerings to the Lord, whatever any man gives of such to the Lord will be holy.

  • Lev 5:16
    74%

    16And he is to make payment to the priest for what he has done wrong in relation to the holy thing, together with a fifth part of its value in addition; and the priest will take away his sin by the sheep of his offering, and he will have forgiveness.

  • Lev 25:49-52
    4 verses
    74%

    49Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

    50And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

    51If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

    52And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

  • Lev 22:14
    73%

    14And if a man takes the holy food in error, he will have to give the holy thing back to the priest, with the addition of a fifth part.

  • Lev 14:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35Then let the owner of the house come and say to the priest, It seems to me that there is a sort of leper's disease in the house.

    36And the priest will give orders for everything to be taken out of the house, before he goes in to see the disease, so that the things in the house may not become unclean; and then the priest is to go in to see the house;

  • Num 18:16
    72%

    16Payment is to be made for these when they are a month old, at the value fixed by you, a price of five shekels by the scale of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

  • Lev 27:2
    72%

    2Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.

  • Num 5:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

    8But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his sin.

  • Lev 6:5
    71%

    5The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it is never to go out; every morning the priest is to put wood on it, placing the burned offering in order on it, and there the fat of the peace-offering is to be burned.

  • Num 5:10
    71%

    10And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.

  • Ezek 45:4
    71%

    4This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.

  • Lev 14:44-45
    2 verses
    70%

    44Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.

    45And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.

  • Lev 25:15
    70%

    15Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

  • Lev 27:5
    70%

    5And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.