If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
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If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
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And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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And if it be from sixty years old and upward: if it be a male, then thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
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- Psalms 90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 27:7 And if [it be] from sixty years…
Lev 27:7 And if [it be] from sixty years old and above; if [it be] a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Ver. 7. And if it be from sixty years.] The rate of old age is less than of youth, and more than of childhood.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But if he be poorer than thy estimation,.... If…
But if he be poorer than thy estimation,.... If he is so poor that he is not able to pay the value that, is set upon him, according to the rules before given:
then he shall present himself before the priest; that has made the estimation, according to the above directions, observing the difference of years, and of male and female; but if a person could not pay the said sums that were appointed, he might apply to the priest, and tell his case:
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and the priest shall value him; put a price upon him he is able to pay, as follows:
according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him; he was to examine into his circumstances, and as they appeared to him he was to put a value on him, which was to be paid, but not less than, a shekel; for if he could not pay that, it was to remain as a debt until he could (q); and it was the ability of him that made the vow that was to be inquired into, and according to which the estimation was to be made, and not of him that was vowed: so it is said in the Misnah,"ability is regarded in the vower, and years in the vowed, and estimations in the estimated, and according to the tithe of the estimation: ability in the vower, how? a poor man that estimates a rich man, pays the value of a poor man; and a rich man that estimates a poor man, pays the value of a rich man: if he is poor and afterwards becomes rich, or rich and afterwards poor, he pays the price of a rich man (r);''but the sense which Jarchi gives is, that a priest in such a case was to judge according to what a man has, and so order him to pay, but was to leave him so as he might live, a bed and bolster, and working tools, and if he had an ass he might leave him that.
(q) Maimon. Hilchot Eracin, c. 3. sect. 4. (r) Misn. Eracin, c. 4. sect. 1, 2.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Sixty years old] The old man and…
Verse 7. Sixty years old] The old man and the old woman, being nearly past labour, were nearly of an equal value; hence the one was estimated at fifteen shekels, 2£. 5s., the other at ten shekels, 1£. 10s. This was about the same ratio as that of the children, Le 27:5, and for the same reason.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) From sixty years old and above.—Being almost past…
(7) From sixty years old and above.—Being almost past labour, the old man is next in value to the child.
A male . . . fifteen shekels.—The old man is therefore to be redeemed at £1 18s. 9d.
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The female ten shekels.—The old woman, from sixty and upwards, is estimated at exactly the same value as the girl from five to twenty years old (see Lev_27:5), and hence is to be redeemed at £1 5s. 10d. It will be seen that the disproportion between a man and a woman is not the same in old age as in youth. The authorities during the second Temple account for it by adducing the adage, “An old man in the house is always in the way; an old woman in the house is a treasure, she manages all household affairs.”
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 sixty years old and up
sixty years old and up
"sixty years old and older"
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sixty ... fifteen ... ten
"60 ... 15 ... 10" (See: Numbers)
fifteen shekels
If it is necessary to use modern weight units, here are two ways of doing it. AT: "fifteen pieces of silver" or "150 grams of silver" (See: Biblical Weight)
for a female ten shekels
The phrases "of that age" and "your standard value must be" are left out, but are meant to be understood. AT: "for a female of that age your standard value must be ten shekels" (See: Ellipsis)
the person being given must be presented to the priest
This can be stated in active form. AT "he must present to the priest the person he is giving" (See: Active or Passive)
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priest
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