Leviticus27:1–29

The valuation word — Leviticus 27 and the guilt-offering of Leviticus 5 structural / thematic — confirmed

The controlling noun of this chapter, ‘êrek (H6187, "valuation"), appears in only 29 verses across the whole Hebrew Bible, and several cluster in the reparation/guilt-offering law of Leviticus 5:15, 18, where the priest also assesses a thing "in shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary." The Verifier records the shared bases. The redemption-fifth of Leviticus 27:13, 19 likewise reuses the restitution-fifth of Leviticus 5:16 (shared chămîyshîy, H2549). The link is structural-thematic, not a quotation: the same priestly machinery of assessed value + one-fifth governs both sacred dues and sacred vows.

Leviticus 5:15 · Leviticus 5:18 · Leviticus 5:16

basis: shared lexeme(s) per Verifier: H6187 ʻêrek (29 vv), H5315 nephesh, H3701 keçeph (Lev 5:15); H2549 chămîyshîy + H3254 yâçaph for the redemption-fifth (Lev 5:16) — common-to-moderate frequency, so structural not verbal

The counted lamb — the mikçâh of Leviticus 27:23 and Passover verbal / quotation — confirmed

This is the rarest verbal link in the unit. The noun mikçâh (H4373, the computed "amount/number") occurs in exactly two verses in the entire Hebrew Bible: Leviticus 27:23 and Exodus 12:4 — where a household too small for a whole Passover lamb takes a neighbor "according to the number (mikçâh) of the souls." The Verifier confirms the two-verse lexeme as the basis. The same accounting-word that apportions the redeeming Passover lamb here computes the price of a vowed field — a genuine verbal thread, the field's valuation spoken in the very vocabulary of the lamb's reckoning.

Exodus 12:4

basis: rare shared lexeme H4373 mikçâh — present in only 2 verses in the OT (Lev 27:23 and Exod 12:4); Verifier-computed

The poor vower and the poor kinsman — one word, mûwk verbal / quotation — confirmed

The verb describing the man "too poor to pay the valuation" in Leviticus 27:8 is mûwk (H4134, to be brought low), a rare word found in only five verses — and three of them are the kinsman-redeemer laws of Leviticus 25:25, 35, 39, all paired with gâʼal, to redeem. The Verifier scores the Lev 27:8 ↔ Lev 25:25 pair verbal / quotation — confirmed on this lexeme. The same rare word that names the impoverished landholder whom a goel must redeem also names the impoverished vower whom the priest must reprice in mercy: poverty triggers grace in both laws.

Leviticus 25:25

basis: rare shared lexeme H4134 mûwk — present in only 5 verses; also H1350 gâʼal; Verifier returns verbal/quotation for Lev 27:8 ↔ Lev 25:25

The substitute that becomes holy — temurah within the chapter and at the tithe verbal / quotation — confirmed

The noun tᵉmûwrâh (H8545, "substitute, exchange") is rare — only six verses — and two are inside this chapter: Leviticus 27:10 (the swapped vowed animal) and Leviticus 27:33 (the swapped tithed animal), both with the verb mûwr (H4171, to exchange, 10 vv) and the verdict that both beasts become holy. The Verifier confirms the rare shared lexemes. The same anti-substitution principle binds the vow and the tithe: you cannot upgrade or downgrade what is given to God; the attempt only doubles what is forfeit.

Leviticus 27:33

basis: rare shared lexemes H8545 tᵉmûwrâh (6 vv) + H4171 mûwr (10 vv); Verifier-computed for Lev 27:10 ↔ Lev 27:33

The sanctuary shekel — twenty gerahs, a fixed standard verbal / quotation — confirmed

The weight-definition of Leviticus 27:25 — "twenty gerahs to the shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary" — recurs almost verbatim in Numbers 3:47 (the firstborn redemption-money) and Exodus 30:13. The rare unit gêrâh (H1626) appears in only five verses, all of them this sanctuary-weight legislation; the Verifier scores Lev 27:25 ↔ Num 3:47 as verbal / quotation — confirmed on gêrâh + sheqel + ‘esrîym + qôdesh. The shared standard is not coincidence but a deliberately fixed, repeated measure binding all sacred payments to one honest weight.

Numbers 3:47

basis: rare shared lexeme H1626 gêrâh (5 vv) with H8255 sheqel, H6242 ʻesrîym, H6944 qôdesh; Verifier returns verbal/quotation for Lev 27:25 ↔ Num 3:47

The redemption of the firstborn — Leviticus 27 and Numbers 18:16 verbal / quotation — confirmed

The Verifier's single highest-scoring parallel to this unit is Numbers 18:16, the law of the firstborn's redemption: "from a month old shalt thou redeem them… for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs." The verbal overlap is dense and exact. Against Leviticus 27:6 it shares ‘êrek (H6187, valuation, 29 vv), chôdesh (H2320, the month-old threshold), châmêsh (H2568, five), sheqel and keçeph; against Leviticus 27:25 it shares the genuinely rare gêrâh (H1626, only 5 vv) with sheqel, ‘esrîym, and qôdesh — the Verifier returns verbal / quotation — confirmed on both pairings. The two laws are siblings: the chapter's valuation-floor at one month old (v.6) and its sanctuary-shekel-of-twenty-gerahs standard (v.25) are the very figures by which Numbers prices the firstborn. The same threshold of one month — the moment a life is first "counted" — opens both the firstborn's redemption-price and the human valuation table; the commentators rightly cross-cite Numbers 18:16 at both verses.

Numbers 18:16

basis: rare shared lexeme H1626 gêrâh (5 vv, Lev 27:25 ↔ Num 18:16) plus H6187 ʻêrek (29 vv), H2320 chôdesh, H2568 châmêsh, H8255 sheqel, H3701 keçeph (Lev 27:6 ↔ Num 18:16); Verifier returns verbal/quotation for both pairings — the unit's top-scoring candidate

The ban — cherem as devoted, irredeemable, most holy structural / thematic — confirmed

The term cherem (H2764) enters at Leviticus 27:21 and dominates vv.28–29; it is shared with Numbers 18:14 ("every devoted thing in Israel shall be thine," to the priests), the very text Ellicott and Gill cite to explain who receives the banned field. The Verifier records cherem (31 vv) as the basis. Because cherem is moderately common and no quotation is claimed, the link is structural-thematic: a shared legal category (the unredeemable, most-holy devotion that passes to the sanctuary), not a verbal citation. The darker register of the same word — the devoted-to-destruction of Joshua 6–7 and 1 Samuel 15, which Barnes and Poole invoke for v.29 — shares no indexed lexeme with this unit and is presented as commentary, not a confirmed verbal basis.

Numbers 18:14 · Leviticus 27:28

basis: shared lexeme H2764 chêrem (31 vv) per Verifier; moderately common and no quotation claimed, so structural not verbal

Thirty shekels — the price of a soul and the price of the Son widely-held

Leviticus 27:4 sets the valuation of a woman at thirty shekels, which Exodus 21:32 fixes as the compensation for a slave gored by an ox. Charles Ellicott, on this verse, is the lone commentator to note that this "is the price at which Christ was sold (Matthew 27:9)." The Gospel records the betrayal-money as exactly thirty pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15; 27:3–9, citing Zechariah 11:12–13). This is a cross-Testament link: Greek (Matthew) and Hebrew (Leviticus) cannot share a Strong's lexeme, so the connection is typological by the shared figure — the established "valuation of a soul" in Israel becomes the sum weighed out for the Soul who would redeem all souls. The figural reading is ancient and widely held in the Christian tradition; the numerical coincidence is exact and the commentator-cited basis is recorded.

Matthew 27:9 · Exodus 21:32 · Zechariah 11:12

What money cannot ransom — from the cherem to the ransom of a life widely-held

The chapter's logic climbs from things that can be redeemed by silver-plus-a-fifth (vv.13–27) to the cherem that "cannot be sold or redeemed" because it is "most holy" (v.28), to the devoted person who "cannot be ransomed" at all (yip·pā·ḏeh negated, v.29). The New Testament takes up precisely this distinction: redemption that silver cannot accomplish requires a ransom of life — "the Son of Man came… to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45), and "you were redeemed… not with perishable things such as silver or gold… but with the precious blood of Christ" (1 Peter 1:18–19). This is a cross-Testament, motif-level link (Greek and Hebrew share no Strong's number), tiered typological/structural: the same theology — that the gravest debt lies beyond the reach of money — runs from the unransomable cherem to the blood-ransom of the cross. The reading is widely held; it is offered as figural, not as a verbal quotation.

Mark 10:45 · 1 Peter 1:18 · Hebrews 9:12

The firstborn already the LORD's — and the Firstborn presented widely-held

Verse 26 forbids vowing the firstborn animal "because it is not his own, but the Lord's already" (Benson), the wordplay bə·ḵō·wr… yə·ḇuk·kar marking it the LORD's by birth itself (Exodus 13:2), and verse 27 prices the redemption of the unclean firstling — the same five-shekel, one-month-old, sanctuary-gerah standard that Numbers 18:16 sets for the firstborn son. Luke records that standard kept for Jesus: "every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord" (Luke 2:23, quoting Exodus 13:2), the infant Firstborn presented at the temple and redeemed under this very law. The New Testament then turns the title: Christ is "the firstborn of all creation" and "the firstborn from the dead" (Colossians 1:15, 18), the One who was Himself not withheld but given. This is a cross-Testament link (Greek and Hebrew share no Strong's number; the Verifier returns no indexed lexeme), tiered typological/structural — the figure of the firstborn-belonging-to-God, not a verbal quotation. The firstborn-of-Israel to Christ-the-Firstborn reading is ancient and widely held; it is offered here as figural, anchored in Luke's explicit citation of the firstborn statute the chapter presupposes.

Luke 2:23 · Exodus 13:2 · Colossians 1:15