Leviticus 27:25

25 'Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be after ¹the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

Leviticus 27:25 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:25

And all thy estimation shall be according to the shekel of the
sanctuary
The shekel kept in the sanctuary, which was the standard of all shekels; not that there was a shekel in the sanctuary different from the common one; for every shekel ought to have been as that, of the full weight and worth of it; and the estimation was to be according to such a shekel, and the money paid in such, even in full weight:

twenty gerahs shall be the shekel;
which the Targum of Jonathan calls "meahs" or "oboli", one of which was about three halfpence of our money, scarce so much, and weighed near eleven grains, as Bishop Cumberland ^F9 has calculated: see ( Ezekiel 45:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Of Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 111.

Leviticus 27:25 In-Context

23 then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your valuation up to the year of jubilee; and he shall on that day give your valuation as holy to the LORD .

24 'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

25 'Every valuation of yours, moreover, shall be after the shekel of the sanctuary. The shekel shall be twenty gerahs.

26 'However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD , no man may consecrate it; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S.

27 'But if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall redeem it according to your valuation and add to it one-fifth of it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:3; Numbers 3:47; Numbers 18:16