Leviticus 27:14–15
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the end of Leviticus, a book that our modern, sentimental age finds particularly baffling. We have marched through sacrifice, purity laws, and priestly duties, and we conclude here in chapter 27 with a section on vows and valuations. To the modern ear, this sounds like the driest sort of religious accounting. It sounds like the fine print on a divine insurance policy. But if we think this, we are missing the point entirely. We are reading with worldly eyes, not with the eyes of faith. This chapter, and our text in particular, is a direct assault on the flimsy, subjective way our world thinks about value and commitment. We live in an age where a man's word is worth nothing, where contracts are made to be broken, and where value is whatever the market, or our fickle hearts, say it is.