If the person is from sixty years old and upward, if a male, then your assessment shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.
Parallel translations
- WEB If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
- KJV And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
- BSB And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
- NKJV and if from sixty years old and above, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
- NLT A man older than sixty is valued at fifteen shekels of silver; a woman of that age is valued at ten shekels of silver.
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For those sixty and older, the valuation was fifteen shekels for a male and ten for a female. The aged too could be consecrated by vow.
Overview
Lower valuations for the elderly again reflect reduced capacity for physical labor, not diminished worth before God. The scheme honored vows from every stage of life. It quietly affirms that the aged, like all, may be devoted to the Lord, whose regard for His people does not fade with years.
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- Ps 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
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