Leviticus 27:28-30

Contemporary English Version

²⁸^(A) Anything that you completely dedicate to me must be completely destroyed.^[a] It cannot be bought back or sold. Every person, animal, and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me. ²⁹In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put to death.

³⁰^(B) Ten percent of everything you harvest is holy and belongs to me, whether it grows in your fields or on your fruit trees.

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Footnotes

27.28 completely dedicate … completely destroyed: In order to show that something belonged completely to the Lord and could not be used by anyone else, it was destroyed. This law most often applied to towns and people captured in war (see Joshua 6.16,17).