Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Because you have let the man go whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life and your people for his people.”
Leviticus 27:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 No human beings who have been devoted to destruction can be ransomed; they shall be put to death. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No one doomed to death [under the claim of divine justice], who is to be completely destroyed from among men, shall be ransomed [from suffering the death penalty]; he shall surely be put to death. American Standard Version (1901) No one devoted, that shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. Common English Bible No human beings that have been devoted can be bought back; they must be executed. Catholic Public Domain Version And all that has been consecrated, which is offered by man, shall not be redeemed, but shall surely die. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And any consecration that is offered by man shall not be redeemed, but dying shall die. |
Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: Because you have let the man go whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life and your people for his people.”
“Nothing that a person owns that has been devoted to destruction for the Lord, be it human or animal or inherited landholding, may be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
“All tithes from the land, whether the seed from the ground or the fruit from the tree, are the Lord’s; they are holy to the Lord.
Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
He took King Agag of the Amalekites alive but utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.