13The LORD said to Moses,H3068H1696H4872H5592"Dedicate all the first-born males to me, for every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me."H6942H1060H6363H7358H1121H3478H120H929
The Festival of Unleavened Bread
3Moses said to the people, "Remember this day - the day on which you left Egypt, the place where you were slaves. This is the day the LORD brought you out by his great power. No leavened bread is to be eaten.H4872H559H5971H2142H2088H3117H3318H4714H1004H5650H2392H3027H3068H3318H2557H3984You are leaving Egypt on this day in the first month, the month of Abib.H3117H3318H2320H245The LORD solemnly promised your ancestors to give you the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. When he brings you into that rich and fertile land, you must celebrate this festival in the first month of every year.H3068H935H776H3669H2850H567H2340H2983H7650H1H5414H776H2100H2461H1706H5647H5656H23206For seven days you must eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to honor the LORD.H7651H3117H398H4682H7637H3117H2282H30687For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land.H4682H398H7651H3117H2557H7200H7603H7200H13668When the festival begins, explain to your sons that you do all this because of what the LORD did for you when you left Egypt.H5046H1121H3117H559H5668H2088H3068H6213H3318H47149This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on your hand or on your forehead; it will remind you to continue to recite and study the Law of the LORD, because the LORD brought you out of Egypt by his great power.H226H3027H2146H5869H3068H8451H6310H2389H3027H3068H3318H471410Celebrate this festival at the appointed time each year.H8104H2708H4150H3117H3117
The First-Born
11"The LORD will bring you into the land of the Canaanites, which he solemnly promised to you and your ancestors. When he gives it to you,H3068H935H776H3669H7650H1H541412you must offer every first-born male to the LORD. Every first-born male of your animals belongs to the LORD,H5674H3068H6363H7358H6363H7698H929H2145H306813but you must buy back from him every first-born male donkey by offering a lamb in its place. If you do not want to buy back the donkey, break its neck. You must buy back every first-born male child of yours.H6363H2543H6299H7716H6299H6202H1060H120H1121H629914In the future, when your son asks what this observance means, you will answer him, 'By using great power the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place where we were slaves.H1121H7592H4279H559H559H2392H3027H3068H3318H4714H1004H565015When the king of Egypt was stubborn and refused to let us go, the LORD killed every first-born male in the land of Egypt, both human and animal. That is why we sacrifice every first-born male animal to the LORD, but buy back our first-born sons.H6547H7185H7971H3068H2026H1060H776H4714H1060H120H1060H929H2076H3068H6363H7358H2145H1060H1121H629916This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on our hands or on our foreheads; it will remind us that the LORD brought us out of Egypt by his great power.' "H226H3027H2903H5869H2392H3027H3068H3318H4714
The Pillar of Cloud and the Pillar of Fire
17When the king of Egypt let the people go, God did not take them by the road that goes up the coast to Philistia, although it was the shortest way. God thought, "I do not want the people to change their minds and return to Egypt when they see that they are going to have to fight."H6547H5971H7971H430H5148H1870H776H6430H3588H7138H430H559H5971H5162H7200H4421H7725H471418Instead, he led them in a roundabout way through the desert toward the Red Sea. The Israelites were armed for battle.H430H5437H5971H5437H1870H4057H5488H3220H1121H3478H5927H2571H776H471419Moses took the body of Joseph with him, as Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly promise to do. Joseph had said, "When God rescues you, you must carry my body with you from this place."H4872H3947H6106H3130H7650H7650H1121H3478H559H430H6485H6485H5927H6106H592720The Israelites left Sukkoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the desert.H5265H5523H2583H864H7097H405721During the day the LORD went in front of them in a pillar of cloud to show them the way, and during the night he went in front of them in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel night and day.H3068H1980H6440H3119H5982H6051H5148H1870H3915H5982H784H215H3212H3119H391522The pillar of cloud was always in front of the people during the day, and the pillar of fire at night.H4185H5982H6051H3119H5982H784H3915H6440H5971
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