Leviticus 27:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you promise part of your family's land to me, its value must be determined by the amount of seed needed to plant the land, and the rate will be ten pieces of silver for every twenty kilogrammes of seed.

Cross References

Isaiah 5:10

Four hectares of grapevines will produce only twenty-seven litres of juice, and a hundred and eighty litres of seed will produce merely eighteen litres of grain.

Hosea 3:2

So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and about a hundred and fifty kilogrammes of grain for such a woman.

Leviticus 27:15

But if you decide to buy it back, you must pay an additional twenty per cent.

Leviticus 27:17

If this promise is made in the Year of Celebration, the land will be valued at the full price.

Acts 5:4

The property was yours before you sold it, and even after you sold it, the money was still yours. What made you do such a thing? You didn't lie to people. You lied to God!”