Exodus 13:13

Easy To Read Version

Every firstborn donkey can be bought back from the Lord. You can offer a lamb and keep the donkey. If you don’t want to buy the donkey from the Lord, then kill it. It will be a sacrifice [85] —you must break its neck. But every firstborn baby boy [86] must be bought back from the Lord.

Cross References

Exodus 12:21

So Moses called all the elders (leaders) together. Moses told them, “Get the lambs for your families. Kill the lambs for the Passover.

Exodus 12:3

This command is for the whole community of Israel: On the tenth day of this month each person must get one lamb for the people in his house.

Exodus 13:2

“You must give me every male in Israel that is its mother's first child. That means that every firstborn baby {boy} and every firstborn {male} animal will be mine.”

Exodus 34:20

If you want to keep a donkey that is the first born, then you can buy it with a lamb. But if you don’t buy that donkey with a lamb, then you must break the donkey’s neck. You must buy back all of your firstborn [347] sons from me. No person should come before me without a gift.

Revelation 14:4

These 144,000 people are the ones who did not do wrong things with women. They kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb every place he goes. These 144,000 were redeemed (saved) from among the people of the earth. They are the first people to be offered to God and the Lamb.