SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:8
Pero si fuere más pobre que tu estimación, entonces comparecerá ante el sacerdote, y el sacerdote le apreciará; conforme a la facultad del votante le apreciará el sacerdote.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. But if he be poorer than thy estimation , etc.] If he is so poor that he is not able to pay the value that, is set upon him, according to the rules before given: then he shall present himself before the priest ; that has made the estimation, according to the above directions, observing the difference of years, and of male and female; but if a person could not pay the said sums that were appointed, he might apply to the priest, and tell his case: and the priest shall value him ; put a price upon him he is able to pay, as follows: according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him ; he was to examine into his circumstances, and as they appeared to him he was to put a value on him, which was to be paid, but not less than, a shekel; for if he could not pay that, it was to remain as a debt until he could f934 ; and it was the ability of him that made the vow that was to be inquired into, and according to which the estimation was to be made, and not of him that was vowed: so it is said in the Misnah, “ability is regarded in the vower, and years in the vowed, and estimations in the estimated, and according to the tithe of the estimation: ability in the vower, how? a poor man that estimates a rich man, pays the value of a poor man; and a rich man that estimates a poor man, pays the value of a rich man: if he is poor and afterwards becomes rich, or rich and afterwards poor, he pays the price of a rich man f935 ;” but the sense which Jarchi gives is, that a priest in such a case was to judge according to what a man has, and so order him to pay, but was to leave him so as he might live, a bed and bolster, and working tools, and if he had an ass he might leave him that.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-13 - Zeal for the service of God disposed the Israelites, on some occasions to dedicate themselves or their children to the service of the Lord, in his house for life. Some persons who thus dedicated themselves might be employed as assistants; in general they were to be redeemed for value. It is good to be zealously affected and liberally disposed for the Lord's service; but the matter should be well weighed, and prudenc should direct as to what we do; else rash vows and hesitation in doin them will dishonour God, and trouble our own minds.
Original Hebrew
ואם 518 מך 4134 הוא 1931 מערכך 6187 והעמידו 5975 לפני 6440 הכהן 3548 והעריך 6186 אתו 853 הכהן 3548 על 5921 פי 6310 אשׁר 834 תשׂיג 5381 יד 3027 הנדר 5087 יעריכנו 6186 הכהן׃ 3548
