Leviticus 27:26

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Maar het eerstgeborene van een dier, hetwelk als zoodanig den Heer behoort, zal door niemand geheiligd worden: hetzij een rund hetzij een stuk kleinvee, het behoort aan den Heer.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Het eerstgeborene onder het vee, dat den Heer reeds toebehoort, zal niemand den Heer heiligen, hetzij een os of schaap; want het is des Heren.

Staten Vertaling
Maar het eerstgeborene, dat den HEERE van een beest eerstgeboren wordt, dat zal niemand heiligen; hetzij een os, of klein vee, het is des HEEREN.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the firstling: Heb. first born, etc. As these firstlings were the Lord's before, it would have been a solemn mockery to pretend to make them a matter of a singular vow; for they were already appointed, if clean, to be sacrificed.

which: Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:12, Exodus 13:13, Exodus 22:30, Numbers 18:17, Deuteronomy 15:19

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:13 - Because Numbers 8:17 - I sanctified Numbers 18:15 - openeth 2 Kings 7:5 - behold 1 Chronicles 6:28 - firstborn Nehemiah 10:36 - the firstborn

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Only the firstlings of the beasts,.... These are excepted from being sanctified, or set apart for sacred uses, for a very good reason, suggested in the next clause:

which should be the Lord's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; it being what he has a claim upon, and ordered to be sanctified to him by a law previous to this, Exodus 13:2; wherefore to sanctify such a creature, would be to sanctify what was his before; not merely in a general sense, in which all creatures are his, but in a special sense, having in a peculiar manner required it as his; and therefore to sanctify, or vow to him, what was his before, must be trifling with him, and mocking of him:

whether [it be] ox, or sheep; the firstlings of either of them:

it [is] the Lord's; which he has claimed as his own special and peculiar property, antecedent to any vow of its owner.