Answer a fool according to his folly, ¹  lest he be wise in his own estimation. ² 

If the person is a female, the conversion value is thirty shekels.

And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel (which is twenty gerahs).

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down ¹  first and compute the cost ²  to see if he has enough money to complete it?

He ¹  leads ²  counselors away stripped ³  and makes judges ⁴  into fools. ⁵ 

I almost ¹  came to complete ruin ²  in the midst of the whole congregation!” ³ 

You make us like filthy scum ¹  in the estimation ²  of the nations.

the conversion value of the male ¹  from twenty years old up to sixty years old ²  is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel. ³ 

If the person is one month old up to five years old, the conversion value of the male is five shekels of silver, ¹  and for the female the conversion value is three shekels of silver.

“‘If a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. Just as the priest establishes its conversion value, thus it will stand. ¹ 

the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay ¹  the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord.

and the priest will establish its conversion value, ¹  whether good or bad. According to the assessed conversion value of the priest, thus it will be.

If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, ¹  he must add one fifth to ²  its conversion value.

If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, ¹  the conversion value will stand,

Every conversion value must be calculated by the standard of the sanctuary shekel; ¹  twenty gerahs to the shekel.

Do not be wise in your own estimation; ¹  fear the Lord and turn away from evil. ² 

The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation ¹  than seven people who respond with good sense. ² 

You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

and must bring a flawless ram from the flock, convertible into silver shekels, ¹  for a guilt offering to the priest. So the priest will make atonement ²  on his behalf for his error which he committed ³  (although he himself had not known it) and he will be forgiven. ⁴