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Exodus 13 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Consecration of the Firstborn

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:1 - The LORD said to Moses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2 - “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”
(Exo 12:14–20 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery, because the LORD brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:4 - Today, in the month of Aviv, you are leaving.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you are to observe this ceremony in this month:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:6 - For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:8 - On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:9 - This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:10 - You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 - “After the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised on oath to you and your ancestors,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - you are to give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - “In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:16 - And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead that the LORD brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.”

Crossing the Sea

(Exo 40:34–38; Num 9:15–23; 1Ki 8:10, 11 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea.[fn] The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites swear an oath. He had said, “God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up with you from this place.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:21 - By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:22 - Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
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