Leviticus 27:29

No devoted one who is devoted (or accursed) of men, (as the criminal doomed to death,) shall be redeemed; being slain, he shall be killed.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

In Context

28Nevertheless, no devoted thing which a man shall have devoted before the Lord of all that he hath of man or of beast and of the field of his possession may be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most sacred before the Lord.

30And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s; it is sacred before the Lord.

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Matthew Henry on Leviticus 27:27-34

26 Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord 's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord 's. 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. 28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession,… Read the whole commentary →

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