Exodus 13:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:36

As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:

Nehemiah 10:37

And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

Exodus 13:1

And the Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 22:28

You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.

Exodus 23:19

The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

Exodus 4:22

And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

Ezekiel 16:20

And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

Ezekiel 16:21

That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?

Leviticus 27:26

But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.

Numbers 18:15

The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

Numbers 3:12

See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

Numbers 3:13

For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord.

Luke 2:23

As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord,

Deuteronomy 15:19

All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.

Hebrews 12:23

To the great meeting and church of the first of those who are named in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of good men made complete,