If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
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If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
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And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
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And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 27:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Zechariah 11:12-13 I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.
- Matthew 26:15 and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
- Matthew 27:9-10 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced, and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 27:4 And if it [be] a female, then…
Lev 27:4 And if it [be] a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.
Ver. 4. And if it be a female.] She is set at a lower valuation then the male, because less able for any laborious or rational employment.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Less than the man’s price, because she is inferior…
Less than the man’s price, because she is inferior to him both in strength and serviceableness.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if it be from five years old, even…
And if it be from five years old, even unto to twenty years old,.... Not that one of five years old is supposed to vow or to make an estimation, but one grown up, that says, the estimation of this little one, who is five years of age, be upon me; and such an one was bound to pay the value of him, which is as follows:
then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels; which were for the one above two pounds, and for the other more than one pound; these were valued at a less price than the former, partly because, generally speaking, there are more die between the age of five and the age of twenty years than between twenty and sixty; and partly because within that time they are not capable of so much work and service as in the latter; and it may be observed, that the females of this age are not valued in proportion to the females of the other; the estimation of these being just half that of the males, whereas that of the other is more than half; the reason is, that women above twenty years of age, their service bears, a better proportion to that of men, than that of young women to young men under twenty.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Thirty shekels - Less than the man's price, because…
Thirty shekels - Less than the man's price, because she is inferior to him both in strength and serviceableness.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. And if it be a female] The…
Verse 4. And if it be a female] The woman, at the same age, vowed unto the Lord, might be redeemed for thirty shekels, 4£. 10s. sterling, a little more than one half of the value of the man; for this obvious reason, that a woman, if employed, could not be of so much use in the service of the sanctuary as the man, and was therefore of much less value.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The relative values of the persons appear to be…
The relative values of the persons appear to be regulated according to an estimate of the probable value of their future work:
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Male
Female
From a month to five years of age
5 shekels
3 shekels
From five years to twenty of age
20 shekels
10 shekels
From forty years to sixty of age
50 shekels
30 shekels
Sixty years of age and older:
15 shekels
10 shekels
As regards the shekel of the sanctuary, see Exo 38:24 note.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) And if it be a female . .…
(4) And if it be a female . . . thirty shekels.—As the woman is the weaker vessel, and her labour is of less value, if she vows herself or dedicates by a vow any other one of her own sex to the sanctuary, she is to pay thirty shekels, or £3 17s. 6d., provided she is within the above-named limits of age. This was the value of a slave (Exo_21:32), and is the price at which Christ was sold (Mat_27:9). It is supposed that under this provision Jephtha might have redeemed his daughter whom he unwittingly vowed to the Lord (Jdg_11:30). (See, however, Lev_27:29.)
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