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And if [it be] of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem [it] according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth [part] of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

S'il s'agit d'un animal impur, on le rachètera au prix de ton estimation, en y ajoutant un cinquième; s'il n'est pas racheté, il sera vendu d'après ton estimation.

KJV

And if [it be] of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem [it] according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth [part] of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    clean animal. Yet other unclean animals were redeemed and their price could be offered, according to Lev. 27:27, "If it be an unclean animal, he that offereth it shall redeem it." But a dog was neither offered nor redeemed, both because idolaters used dogs in sacrifices to their…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 143 (Migne)

    ltero commutabitur. Si quis mutaverit, et quod mutatum est sanctificabitur Domino, et non redimetur (Levit. XXVII, 26-33) .» Quod si diligenter investiges, invenies tabernaculum, cunctaque ejus utensilia, oleo sanctificationis inuncta, vocabis sanctum [Col. 1181D] sanctorum; cae…

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