Leviticus 27:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ No human beings who have been devoted to destruction can be ransomed; they shall be put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ 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)

²⁹ No one devoted, that shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Common English Bible

²⁹ No human beings that have been devoted can be bought back; they must be executed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ 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

²⁹ 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

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 27:28

“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.

Leviticus 27:30

“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.

1 Samuel 15:3

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.”

1 Samuel 15:8

He took King Agag of the Amalekites alive but utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.