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Leviticus 27:11 Explained in Context

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Verse 11. And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

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This verse brings a non-offerable animal before the priest for valuation.

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  • Leviticus 27:9-13

Read through 27:9-13 and watch how each actor, material, status, or command relates. Leviticus 27:11 brings a non-offerable animal before the priest for valuation; the whole unit establishes this: 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.

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Read Leviticus 27:9-13 — Vowed animals become holy and substitutions bind both animals
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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

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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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