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Leviticus 27

Votive Offerings and Dedications.

1The LORD said to Moses:

2^* Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When anyone makes a vow to the LORD^a with respect to the value of a human being,

3the value for males between the ages of twenty and sixty shall be fifty silver shekels, by the sanctuary shekel;

4and for a female, the value shall be thirty shekels.

5For persons between the ages of five and twenty, the value for a male shall be twenty shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.

6For persons between the ages of one month and five years, the value for a male shall be five silver shekels, and for a female, three shekels.

7For persons of sixty or more, for a male the value shall be fifteen shekels, and ten shekels for a female.

8However, if the one who made the vow is too poor to meet the sum,^b the person must be set before the priest, who shall determine a value; the priest will do this in keeping with the means of the one who made the vow.

9If the offering vowed to the LORD is an animal that may be sacrificed, every such animal given to the LORD becomes sacred.^c

10The offerer shall not substitute or exchange another for it, either a worse or a better one. If the offerer exchanges one animal in place of another, both the original and its substitute shall become sacred.

11If any unclean animal which is unfit for sacrifice^d to the LORD is vowed, it must be set before the priest,

12who shall determine its value^* in keeping with its good or bad qualities, and the value set by the priest shall stand.

13If the offerer wishes to redeem the animal, the person shall pay one fifth more than this valuation.^e

14^* When someone dedicates a house as sacred to the LORD,^* the priest shall determine its value in keeping with its good or bad qualities, and the value set by the priest shall stand.

15A person dedicating a house who then wishes to redeem it shall pay one fifth more than the price thus established, and then it will again belong to that individual.^f

16If someone dedicates to the LORD a portion of hereditary land, its valuation shall be made according to the amount of seed required to sow it, the acreage sown with a homer^* of barley seed being valued at fifty silver shekels.

17If the dedication of a field is made at the beginning of a jubilee period, the full valuation shall hold;

18but if it is some time after this, the priest shall estimate its money value according to the number of years left until the next jubilee year, with a corresponding reduction on the valuation.^g

19A person dedicating a field who then wishes to redeem^{* h} it shall pay one fifth more than the price thus established, and so reclaim it.

20If, instead of redeeming such a field, one sells it^* to another, it may no longer be redeemed;

21but at the jubilee it shall be releasedⁱ as sacred^* to the LORD; like a field that is put under the ban, it shall become priestly property.

22If someone dedicates to the LORD a field that was purchased and was not part of hereditary property,

23the priest shall compute its value in proportion to the number of years until the next jubilee, and on the same day the person shall pay the price thus established, a sacred donation to the LORD;

24at the jubilee the field shall revert to the hereditary owner of this land from whom it had been purchased.^*

25Every valuation shall be made according to the standard of the sanctuary shekel. There are twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Irredeemable Offerings.

26^* Note that a firstborn animal,^j which as such already belongs to the LORD, may not be dedicated. Whether an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.

27But if it is an unclean animal,^* it may be redeemed by paying one fifth more than its value. If it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at its value.

28Note, also, that any possession which someone puts under the ban^* for the LORD, whether it is a human being, an animal, or a hereditary field, shall be neither sold nor redeemed; everything that is put under the ban becomes most holy to the LORD.^k

29All human beings that are put under the ban cannot be redeemed; they must be put to death.^l

30^* All tithes of the land, whether in grain from the fields or in fruit from the trees, belong to the LORD; they are sacred to the LORD.^m

31If someone wishes to redeem any of the tithes, the person shall pay one fifth more than their value.

32The tithes of the herd and the flock, every tenth animal that passes under the herdsman’s rod, shall be sacred to the LORD.

33It shall not matter whether good ones or bad ones are thus chosen, and no exchange may be made. If any exchange is made, both the original animal and its substitute become sacred and cannot be redeemed.

34These are the commandments which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites.ⁿ

Romans 10

^* Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God on their behalf is for salvation.^a

2I testify with regard to them that they have zeal for God, but it is not discerning.^b

3For, in their unawareness of the righteousness that comes from God and their attempt to establish their own [righteousness], they did not submit to the righteousness of God.^c

4For Christ is the end^* of the law for the justification of everyone who has faith.^d

5^* Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from [the] law, “The one who does these things will live by them.”^e

6But the righteousness that comes from faith says,^f “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)

7^* or ‘Who will go down into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”^g

8But what does it say?

“The word is near you,

in your mouth and in your heart”^h

(that is, the word of faith that we preach),

9for, if you confess^* with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.ⁱ

10For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.

11For the scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.”^j

12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, enriching all who call upon him.^k

13For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”^l

14^* But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?^m

15And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written,ⁿ “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring [the] good news!”^*

16But not everyone has heeded the good news; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what was heard from us?”^o

17Thus faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.^p

18But I ask, did they not hear? Certainly they did; for

“Their voice has gone forth to all the earth,

and their words to the ends of the world.”^q

19But I ask, did not Israel understand?^r First Moses says:

“I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;

with a senseless nation I will make you angry.”

20^s Then Isaiah speaks boldly and says:

“I was found [by] those who were not seeking me;

I revealed myself to those who were not asking for me.”

21But regarding Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contentious people.”

Romans 11

The Remnant of Israel.^*

1I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not!^a For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.^b

2God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

3“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”^c

4But what is God’s response to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal.”^d

5So also at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.^e

6But if by grace, it is no longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.^f

7What then? What Israel was seeking it did not attain, but the elect attained it; the rest were hardened,^g

8as it is written:

“God gave them a spirit of deep sleep,

eyes that should not see

and ears that should not hear,

down to this very day.”^h

9And David says:ⁱ

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,

a stumbling block and a retribution for them;

10let their eyes grow dim so that they may not see,

and keep their backs bent forever.”

The Gentiles’ Salvation.

11^* Hence I ask, did they stumble so as to fall? Of course not! But through their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make them jealous.^j

12Now if their transgression is enrichment for the world, and if their diminished number is enrichment for the Gentiles, how much more their full number.

13Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I glory in my ministry^k

14in order to make my race jealous and thus save some of them.

15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

16^* If the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch of dough; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.^l

17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place and have come to share in the rich root of the olive tree,^m

18do not boast against the branches. If you do boast, consider that you do not support the root; the root supports you.ⁿ

19Indeed you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

20That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe.^o

21For if God did not spare the natural branches, [perhaps] he will not spare you either.^p

22See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.^q

23And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.^r

24For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated one, how much more will they who belong to it by nature be grafted back into their own olive tree.

God’s Irrevocable Call.^*

25I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not become wise [in] your own estimation: a hardening has come upon Israel in part, until the full number of the Gentiles comes in,^s

26and thus all Israel will be saved,^t as it is written:^u

“The deliverer will come out of Zion,

he will turn away godlessness from Jacob;

27and this is my covenant with them

when I take away their sins.”^v

28In respect to the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but in respect to election, they are beloved because of the patriarchs.^w

29For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.^x

Triumph of God’s Mercy.

30^* Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience,

31so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may [now] receive mercy.

32For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.^y

33^* Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!^z

34“For who has known the mind of the Lord^*

or who has been his counselor?”^a

35^* “Or who has given him anything^b

that he may be repaid?”

36For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.^c

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