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.

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.