Leviticus 27:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

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King 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.

Leviticus 27:29 Cross References

1 Kings 20:42

And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

Leviticus 27:28

Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.

Leviticus 27:30

And 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 holy unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 15:8

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.