13 All the land’s firstfruits that they bring to the Lord will be yours.(A) Everyone in your household who is ceremonially clean may eat it.(B)

14 “Everything in Israel that is devoted[a] to the Lord(C) is yours. 15 The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the Lord is yours.(D) But you must redeem(E) every firstborn(F) son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:14 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord.

13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

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