First Born, The

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• Exodus 13:2 OT

  “Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”

• Exodus 13:12 OT

  that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have. The males shall be Yahweh’s.

• Exodus 22:29 OT

  “You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

• Exodus 13:15 OT

  When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of livestock. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all…

• Numbers 3:13 OT

  for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I made holy to me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and animal. They shall be mine. I am Yahweh.”

• Numbers 8:17 OT

  For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.

• Deuteronomy 15:19 OT

  You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

• Exodus 22:30 OT

  You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

• Leviticus 22:27 OT

  “When a bull, a sheep, or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother. From the eighth day on it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

• Numbers 18:17 OT

  “But you shall not redeem the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat. They are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar, and shall burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a pleasant…

• Leviticus 27:26 OT

  “ ‘However the firstborn among animals, which belongs to Yahweh as a firstborn, no man may dedicate, whether an ox or a sheep. It is Yahweh’s.

• Genesis 4:4 OT

  Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

• Numbers 18:18 OT

  Their meat shall be yours, as the wave offering breast and as the right thigh, it shall be yours.

• Numbers 18:15 OT

  Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.

• Numbers 18:16 OT

  You shall redeem those who are to be redeemed of them from a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of money, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which weighs twenty gerahs.

• Exodus 13:13 OT

  Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.

• Exodus 34:20 OT

  You shall redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb. If you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before me empty.

• Numbers 3:12 OT

  “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine,

• Numbers 3:40-43 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Count all the firstborn males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. You shall take the Levites for me—I am Yahweh—instead of all the firstborn among the children…

• Numbers 8:18 OT

  I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

• Numbers 3:46 OT

  For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,

• Numbers 3:47 OT

  you shall take five shekels apiece for each one; according to the shekel of the sanctuary you shall take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

• Numbers 3:48-51 OT

  and you shall give the money, with which their remainder is redeemed, to Aaron and to his sons.” Moses took the redemption money from those who exceeded the number of those who were redeemed by the Levites; from the firstborn of the…

• Nehemiah 10:36 OT

  also the firstborn of our sons, and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God;