Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Leviticus 27:29 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 29. 29None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
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Quick Meaning
This verse states a lethal rule for a devoted person while leaving its exact scope difficult.
Read It With
- Leviticus 27:26-34
Use 27:26-34 as the reading frame for Leviticus 27:29. The verse states a lethal rule for a devoted person while leaving its exact scope difficult, while the complete unit shows that Firstborn animals already belong to the LORD, unclean firstlings may be redeemed, devoted things become most holy, and crop and herd tithes follow redemption and tenth-animal rules before the Sinai conclusion.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Placed here, the verse states a lethal rule for a devoted person while leaving its exact scope difficult; Leviticus 27:26-34 supplies the actors, category, and outcome needed to interpret it.
Follow the Context
- The unit opens the particular procedure, case, scene, or instruction named “Firstlings, devoted things, and tithes close Leviticus.”
- Firstborn animals already belong to the LORD, unclean firstlings may be redeemed, devoted things become most holy, and crop and herd tithes follow redemption and tenth-animal rules before the Sinai conclusion.
- The unit closes with this interpretive boundary: The difficult devoted-person rule cannot authorize human sacrifice, execution, or irreversible control by a modern religious leader.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“devoted of men”
In plain language: The KJV renders an irrevocably devoted-person category with lethal wording.
It follows property devoted without redemption and remains difficult in scope.
Why it matters: It cannot authorize human sacrifice or execution today.
How certain? uncertainWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Leviticus 27:29 does not turn its distinct contribution—states a lethal rule for a devoted person while leaving its exact scope difficult—into a free-standing rule; the difficult devoted-person rule cannot authorize human sacrifice, execution, or irreversible control by a modern religious leader.
What Remains True
The devoted-person rule is textually severe and disputed in scope; it cannot be used to authorize human sacrifice, execution, or irreversible religious control.
How It Can Shape Life
- Reject vows or ideologies that place a person's life beyond protection, appeal, consent, or due process.
Teach It Back
Explain Leviticus 27:29's contribution to Leviticus 27:26-34. Name the category involved, what the surrounding verses add, any material uncertainty, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 27:26-34 — Firstlings, devoted things, and tithes close LeviticusSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Interpreters disagree over how personal valuations functioned, the relation to labor value, women's legal position, redemption formulas, field calculations, devoted persons, and the chapter's relationship to the book's conclusion. The fixed schedule's inequality must be named without converting it into an ontology of worth.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 27:26-34, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
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 27:26-34
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Leviticus with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
eBible.org distribution of the NET Bible, PDF generated 2025-12-31
Supports: Unit-bounded translator notes on Hebrew, syntax, ritual vocabulary, measures, textual questions, and older-English wording; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible Leviticus PDF, complete PDF pp. 1-99, translation and translator notes for 27:26-34
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