Big Idea: Give to God both what is expected and more.

Understanding the Text

This chapter logically follows after the Jubilee regulations (Lev. 25), which it assumes (see 27:16–24). Leviticus 26’s grand theme of blessings for obedience and punishments for disobedience in some ways seems a more fitting conclusion to Leviticus than does Leviticus 27. Why does the content of Leviticus 27 follow Leviticus 26 rather than precede it? Did God reveal this material on vows and redemption subsequent to revealing the literary unit of Leviticus 25–26? Did the desire to follow the Sabbath Year regulations immediately with the warnings of an involuntary Sabbath rest for the land if Israel ignores the Sabbath Year law (26:34–35) lead to Leviticus 26 taking precedence over the material of Leviticus 27? …