10 You must keep this ordinance(A) at the appointed time(B) year after year.

11 “After the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites(C) and gives it to you, as he promised on oath(D) to you and your ancestors,(E) 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.(F)

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10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

11 And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

12 That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord's.

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10 (A)You shall therefore keep this [a]ordinance in its season from year to year.

The Law of the Firstborn

11 “And it shall be, when the Lord (B)brings you into the land of the (C)Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you, 12 (D)that you shall [b]set apart to the Lord all that open the womb, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have; the males shall be the Lord’s.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 13:10 regulation
  2. Exodus 13:12 Lit. cause to pass over