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Exodus 13 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Dedication of the Firstborn

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:2 - “Dedicate to me every firstborn among the Israelites. The first offspring to be born, of both humans and animals, belongs to me.”
(Exo 12:14–20 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - So Moses said to the people, “This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the LORD has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand. (Remember, eat no food containing yeast.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:4 - On this day in early spring, in the month of Abib,[fn] you have been set free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:5 - You must celebrate this event in this month each year after the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites. (He swore to your ancestors that he would give you this land—a land flowing with milk and honey.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:6 - For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. Then on the seventh day, celebrate a feast to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:7 - Eat bread without yeast during those seven days. In fact, there must be no yeast bread or any yeast at all found within the borders of your land during this time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:8 - “On the seventh day you must explain to your children, ‘I am celebrating what the LORD did for me when I left Egypt.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:9 - This annual festival will be a visible sign to you, like a mark branded on your hand or your forehead. Let it remind you always to recite this teaching of the LORD: ‘With a strong hand, the LORD rescued you from Egypt.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:10 - So observe the decree of this festival at the appointed time each year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:11 - “This is what you must do when the LORD fulfills the promise he swore to you and to your ancestors. When he gives you the land where the Canaanites now live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - you must present all firstborn sons and firstborn male animals to the LORD, for they belong to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:13 - A firstborn donkey may be bought back from the LORD by presenting a lamb or young goat in its place. But if you do not buy it back, you must break its neck. However, you must buy back every firstborn son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:14 - “And in the future, your children will ask you, ‘What does all this mean?’ Then you will tell them, ‘With the power of his mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, so the LORD killed all the firstborn males throughout the land of Egypt, both people and animals. That is why I now sacrifice all the firstborn males to the LORD—except that the firstborn sons are always bought back.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:16 - This ceremony will be like a mark branded on your hand or your forehead. It is a reminder that the power of the LORD’s mighty hand brought us out of Egypt.”
Israel’s Wilderness Detour
(Exo 40:34–38; Num 9:15–23; 1Ki 8:10, 11 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promised Land. God said, “If the people are faced with a battle, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:18 - So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.[fn] Thus the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear to do this. He said, “God will certainly come to help you. When he does, you must take my bones with you from this place.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:20 - The Israelites left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:21 - The LORD went ahead of them. He guided them during the day with a pillar of cloud, and he provided light at night with a pillar of fire. This allowed them to travel by day or by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:22 - And the LORD did not remove the pillar of cloud or pillar of fire from its place in front of the people.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew On this day in the month of Abib. This first month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar usually occurs within the months of March and April.
Or Let it remind you always to keep the instructions of the LORD on the tip of your tongue, because with a strong hand, the LORD rescued you from Egypt.
Hebrew sea of reeds.
Greek version reads left Egypt in the fifth generation.
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