Leviticus 27:28-30

Common English Bible

²⁸Also note that everything someone devotes^[a] to the Lord from their possessions—whether humans, animals, or pieces of land from their family property—cannot be sold or bought back. Every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. ²⁹No human beings that have been devoted can be bought back; they must be executed.

³⁰All tenth-part gifts^[b] from the land, whether of seed from the ground or fruit from the trees, belong to the Lord; they are holy to the Lord.

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Footnotes

Leviticus 27:28 Or places under the ban (also in 27:29), a technique of holy war, in which all is dedicated to the deity who helps in the battle; it often involved total destruction.
Leviticus 27:30 Or tithes