Consecration of the Firstborn

13 The Lord said to Moses, ^2 (A)“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

³ Then Moses said to the people, ^(B)“Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, ^(C)for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. ^(D)No leavened bread shall be eaten.

¹¹ “When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, ^(A)as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, ^12 (B)you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the Lord's. ^13 (C)Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every ^(D)firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. ^14 (E)And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ^(F)‘By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of ^(G)slavery. ¹⁵ For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the ^(H)Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but ^(I)all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’