^17 (A)For all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,

^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.”

²³ (as it is written in ^(A)the Law of the Lord, ^(B)“Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)

^12 (A)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 (B)Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every ^(C)firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. ^14 (D)And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ^(E)‘By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of ^(F)slavery. ¹⁵ For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the ^(G)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 ^(H)all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

^18 (A)Of his own will he ^(B)brought us forth by the word of truth, ^(C)that we should be a kind of ^(D)firstfruits of his creatures.

²⁸ By faith ^(A)he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

²⁹ How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one ^(A)who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned ^(B)the blood of the covenant ^(C)by which he was sanctified, and has ^(D)outraged the Spirit of grace?

¹⁹ And ^(A)for their sake ^(B)I consecrate myself,^[a] that they also ^(C)may be sanctified^[b] in truth.

³⁶ do you say of him whom ^(A)the Father consecrated and ^(B)sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because ^(C)I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?