16 'Again, if a man consecrates to the Lord part of the fields of his own property , then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver . 17 'If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee , according to your valuation it shall stand . 18 'If he consecrates his field after the jubilee , however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee ; and it shall be deducted from your valuation . 19 'If the one who consecrates it should ever wish to redeem the field , then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may pass to him. 20 'Yet if he will not redeem the field , but has sold the field to another man , it may no longer be redeemed ; 21 and when it reverts in the jubilee , the field shall be holy to the Lord , like a field set apart ; it shall be for the priest as his property . 22 'Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought , which is not a part of the field of his own property , 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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 27:16-24
Commentary on Leviticus 27:14-25
(Read Leviticus 27:14-25)
Our houses, lands, cattle, and all our substance, must be used to the glory of God. It is acceptable to him that a portion be given to support his worship, and to promote his cause. But God would not approve such a degree of zeal as ruined a man's family.