Male fifty shekels, female thirty

When a person is dedicated to the LORD, the valuation is set by sex and age. A male from twenty years old to sixty years old, fifty shekels of silver... and if it is a female, thirty shekels. Forty percent less.

Leviticus 27:1–8 sets the redemption price for a person vowed to the sanctuary. The table runs by age and sex: an adult male is valued at fifty shekels; an adult female at thirty — a 40% differential. A male child (5–20) is valued at twenty; a female child at ten — a 50% differential. The passage is a redemption instrument (the money is the price if the vow is commuted, not a purchase), but its valuation table is the clearest numeric gender hierarchy in the Torah. Rabbinic tradition preserved the valuations literally; modern critical scholarship reads the differential as reflecting comparative wages in an agrarian economy — though even on that reading the asymmetry is theologically codified.