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Dedication of the Firstborn

13 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Dedicate to me every firstborn among the Israelites. The first offspring to be born, of both humans and animals, belongs to me.”

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13 1-2 The Lord instructed Moses, “Dedicate to me all of the firstborn sons[a] of Israel, and every firstborn male animal; they are mine!”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:1 all of the firstborn sons, literally, “all the firstborn.”