Annual Reading Schedule - Torah Given Through Mosheh - Week 30 - Valuations & Redeeming That Which Is Set-Apart To YHWH (Leviticus 26:46-27:34)
Reading Questions
- What is the vow being spoken of in Leviticus 27:2?
- What two groups of people valued in Leviticus 27 have the same value?
- What is this "altering" or "replacing" or "exchanging" spoken of in Leviticus 27:10? What does this mean?
- Why is a value placed only on the unclean animals in Leviticus 27:11-12?
- What does it mean in Leviticus 27:15 to redeem the house?
- How often is the Jubilee and what is the Jubilee?
Reading Notes
- In Leviticus 22:23 we learned that a bull or lamb with a deformed or dwarfed limb would not be accepted for a vow. It is interesting, in light of that, that in Leviticus 27:8 the poor could give less than others if he was too poor to pay the normal value of the person involved in the vow he made. This may show that him paying less because he is poor in this case is not considered some kind of a "lesser" or "blemished" offering since this is for a vow. The other thing to take note of here, which we see elsewhere in the Torah as well, is how Yahweh provides exceptions sometimes for poor persons who cannot complete a commandment due to them being poor and no other reason. Yahweh is indeed very merciful!
Related Verses
Jubilee: Leviticus 25, Numbers 36:4