Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation, your valuation of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. If she is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. If the person is from five years old even to twenty years old, then your valuation shall […]
⛓ Read Leviticus 27 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Levitical vow-valuation code scales required offerings to a person's ability, anticipating the principle that the poor are assessed according to their means. Jesus' verdict that the widow gave 'more' precisely because she gave from poverty rather than abundance inverts and fulfills this proportional logic. The connection is thematic and contested rather than verbal.
Low confidenceThe valuation-of-persons in silver ('him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced') echoes the priestly assessment of the monetary 'price' of a person, sharpening the irony of pricing the Messiah.
Low confidence