Leviticus 27:26-28

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Various Offerings

The Lord said:

²⁶All first-born animals of your flocks and herds are already mine, and so you cannot promise any of them to me. ²⁷If you promise me a donkey,^[a] you may buy it back by adding an additional 20 percent to its value. If you don't buy it back, it can be sold to someone else for whatever a priest has said it is worth.

²⁸^(A) Anything that you completely dedicate to me must be completely destroyed.^[b] It cannot be bought back or sold. Every person, animal, and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only for me.

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Footnotes

27.27 donkey: See the note at 27.11.
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).