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Chapter 13

Sign and Memorial.[a] The Lord spoke to Moses, “Consecrate each firstborn to me, whatever opens the womb in Israel, whether human or animal; it belongs to me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:1 The practice of offering the firstborn to God and of eating unleavened bread soon provided Israel with an opportunity of passing on to later generations the religious lesson learned from the events: namely, that what God did in the beginning he continues to do for his people.