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Leviticus 27:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
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Role in This Section
This verse forbids substitution and makes both original and exchange holy after an attempted swap.
Read It With
- Leviticus 27:9-13
Start with 27:9-13 rather than Leviticus 27:10 alone. In that complete movement, this verse forbids substitution and makes both original and exchange holy after an attempted swap. The unit's controlling claim is: A clean sacrificial animal cannot be exchanged, and an attempted substitution makes both holy; an unclean animal is valued by the priest and redeemed with an added fifth.
Why It Needs Context
The verse forbids substitution and makes both original and exchange holy after an attempted swap. Follow Leviticus 27:9-13 before drawing an enduring truth, since the surrounding case determines what this detail does and does not establish.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 27:9-13 — Vowed animals become holy and substitutions bind both animalsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
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Exact location: Leviticus 27:9-13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 27:9-13
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