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Human sacrifices are
allowed in the torah
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Leviticus 27
The LORD told Moses to say to the community of Israel: If you ever want to free
someone who has been promised to me, you may do so by paying the following
amounts, weighed according to the official standards: fifty pieces of silver for
men ages twenty to sixty, and thirty pieces for women; twenty pieces of silver
for young men ages five to twenty, and ten pieces for young women; fifteen
pieces of silver for men ages sixty and above and ten pieces for women; five
pieces of silver for boys ages one month to five years, and three pieces for
girls. If you have promised to give someone to me and can't afford to pay the
full amount for that person's release, you will be taken to a priest, and he
will decide how much you can afford. If you promise to sacrifice an animal to
me, it becomes holy, and there is no way you can set it free. If you try to
substitute any other animal, no matter how good, for the one you promised, they
will both become holy and must be sacrificed. Donkeys are unfit for sacrifice,
so if you promise me a donkey, you must bring it to the priest, and let him
determine its value. But if you want to buy it back, you must pay an additional
twenty percent. If you promise a house to me, a priest will set the price,
whatever the condition of the house. But if you decide to buy it back, you must
pay an additional twenty percent. If you promise part of your family's land to
me, its value must be determined by the bushels of seed needed to plant the
land, and the rate will be ten pieces of silver for every bushel of seed. If
this promise is made in the Year of Celebration, the land will be valued at the
full price. But any time after that, the price will be figured according to the
number of years before the next Year of Celebration. If you decide to buy back
the land, you must pay the price plus an additional twenty percent, but you
cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it. When the Year of Celebration
comes, the land becomes holy because it belongs to me, and it will be given to
the priests. If you promise me a field that you have bought, its value will be
decided by a priest, according to the number of years before the next Year of
Celebration, and the money you pay will be mine. However, on the next Year of
Celebration, the land will go back to the family of its original owner. Every
price will be set by the official standards. All first-born animals of your
flocks and herds are already mine, and so you cannot promise any of them to me.
If you promise me a donkey, you may buy it back by adding an additional twenty
percent to its value. If you don't buy it back, it can be sold to someone else
for whatever a priest has said it is worth. Anything that you completely
dedicate to me must be completely destroyed. It cannot be bought back or sold.
Every person, animal, and piece of property that you dedicate completely is only
for me. In fact, any humans who have been promised to me in this way must be put
to death. Ten percent of everything you harvest is holy and belongs to me,
whether it grows in your fields or on your fruit trees. If you want to buy back
this part of your harvest, you may do so by paying what it is worth plus an
additional twenty percent. When you count your flocks and herds, one out of ten
of every newborn animal is holy and belongs to me, no
matter how good or bad it is. If you substitute one animal for another, both of
them become holy, and neither can be bought back. Moses
was on Mount Sinai when the LORD gave him these laws for the people of Israel.
Judges chapter 11 verses 29-40
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh,
passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the
Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD : "If you give the Ammonites
into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I
return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the LORD's, and I will sacrifice it
as a burnt offering." Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and
the LORD gave them into his hands. He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the
vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon. When
Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his
daughter, dancing to the sound of tambourines! She was an only child. Except for
her he had neither son nor daughter. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and
cried, "Oh! My daughter! You have made me miserable and wretched, because I
have made a vow to the LORD that I cannot break." "My father,"
she replied, "you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me just as you
promised, now that the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites. But
grant me this one request," she said. "Give me two months to roam the
hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry." "You may
go," he said. And he let her go for two months. She and the girls went into
the hills and wept because she would never marry. After the two months, she
returned to her father and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.
From this comes the Israelite custom that each year the young women of Israel go
out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
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