28 “‘Only no sort of devoted thing that a man might devote to Jehovah for destruction+ out of all that is his, whether from mankind or beasts or from the field of his possession, may be sold, and no sort of devoted thing may be bought back.+ It is something most holy to Jehovah.

17 And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has had intercourse with man by lying with a male.+

16 It is only of the cities of these peoples that Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance that you must not preserve any breathing thing* alive,+

17 because you should without fail devote them to destruction, the Hitʹtites and the Amʹor·ites, the Caʹnaan·ites and the Perʹiz·zites, the Hiʹvites and the Jebʹu·sites,+ just as Jehovah your God has commanded you;