If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
Cross References
Leviticus 27:12The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.
Leviticus 27:14Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.
Treasury of Scripture
But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof to your estimation.
Leviticus 27:10,15,19
He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy…
Leviticus 5:16
And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus 6:4,5
Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, …
