Leviticus:27 Human sacrifice?

Question

But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord,of anything that he has,whether of man or beast,or of his inherited field,shall be sold or redeemed;every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.No one devoted,who is to be utterly destroyed from among men,shall be ransomed;he shall be put to death.[RSV] Leviticus 27:verses 28 & 29

Answer 1

Man I can hear the thumping all of the way over here.

Answer 2

This is what happens when you only post the part you want to post, and ignore the rest. I can make those same words have different meanings to, we all can, but lets first show the correct scripture:

Leviticus 27:
"26 " 'No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox [k] or a sheep, it is the LORD's. 27 If it is one of the unclean animals, he may buy it back at its set value, adding a fifth of the value to it. If he does not redeem it, it is to be sold at its set value.
28 " 'But nothing that a man owns and devotes [l] to the LORD -whether man or animal or family land—may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
29 " 'No person devoted to destruction [m] may be ransomed; he must be put to death."

In other words, if the person who is suppose to be devoted turns out to be evil and destructive, he shall not be redeemed (ransomed), but be put to death. The following will described what ransomed is, it's when you give something toward the ransomed, like part of your wheat harvest, its not about human sacrifice:

Leviticus 27:
"Reedeeming What Is the LORD's
1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'If anyone makes a special vow to dedicate persons to the LORD by giving equivalent values, 3 set the value of a male between the ages of twenty and sixty at fifty shekels [a] of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel [b] ; 4 and if it is a female, set her value at thirty shekels. [c] 5 If it is a person between the ages of five and twenty, set the value of a male at twenty shekels [d] and of a female at ten shekels. [e] 6 If it is a person between one month and five years, set the value of a male at five shekels [f] of silver and that of a female at three shekels [g] of silver. 7 If it is a person sixty years old or more, set the value of a male at fifteen shekels [h] and of a female at ten shekels. 8 If anyone making the vow is too poor to pay the specified amount, he is to present the person to the priest, who will set the value for him according to what the man making the vow can afford."

Answer 3

· Why was it that, according to Leviticus 27:28, 29, no devoted thing, whether man or beast, could be redeemed, but had to be put to death?-G. B., Spain.

Leviticus 27:28, 29 (AS) reads: "Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto Jehovah of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto Jehovah. No one devoted, that shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death." The Hebrew word, hher´em, that is translated "devoted" in this text, means a thing or person devoted to destruction or sacred use and therefore withheld from any profane use.

For example, a field could be sanctified and later redeemed, but under certain circumstances it became "a field devoted" and no longer redeemable. It became the possession of the priest and was devoted to sacred use. (Lev. 27:20, 21) Animals and men that became devoted in this sense were devoted to destruction and for that reason not redeemable. King Saul was sent to "devote" or "utterly destroy" the Amalekites, but in violation of this "devoting" he spared King Agag, thereby rousing the wrath of Samuel and causing Samuel to fulfill the devoting of Agag by slaying him. (1 Sam. 15:18, 33) At 1 Kings 20:42 it speaks of a man "whom I appointed to utter destruction", and the margin says a man "of my curse", but the same Hebrew word elsewhere translated "devote" is used. A similar case is Isaiah 34:5, where it speaks of the people "of my curse". Sometimes entire cities were to be devoted to destruction, as outlined at Deuteronomy 13:12-17. The destroyers were to take no "cursed" thing from it, or, according to the margin, no "devoted" thing. Jericho was to be such a "cursed" ("devoted," margin) city, only Rahab and her household being spared. When Achan violated this command by withholding some articles that were devoted to destruction all Israel suffered, until Achan was destroyed. (Josh. 6:17; 7:13) More literal translations, such as Rotherham's and Young's, use the word "devoted" in most of the above cases.

There are many other instances where the same Hebrew word is used to mean devoted to destruction, but the foregoing illustrations suffice to show why such devoted things, animals or persons were not redeemable.

Answer 4

Boy are you naive!

Answer 5

No.