Exodus 13:2

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“You must give me every male in Israel who is his mother’s first child. That means that every firstborn baby boy and every firstborn male animal will be mine.”

Cross References

Luke 2:23

It is written in the law of the Lord: “When a mother’s first baby is a boy, he shall be called ‘special for the Lord.’”

Deuteronomy 15:19

“All the first male animals born in your herd and flock are special. You must give them to the Lord. Don’t use any of these animals for your work and don’t cut wool from any of these sheep.

Numbers 18:15

“A woman’s first baby and an animal’s first baby must be given to the Lord. That baby will belong to you. If the firstborn animal is unclean, then it must be bought back. If the baby is a child, that child must be bought back.

Leviticus 27:26

“You can give cattle and sheep as special gifts to the Lord. But if the animal is the firstborn, it already belongs to the Lord. So you cannot give these animals as special gifts.

Exodus 4:22

Then you should say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.

Hebrews 12:23

You have come to the meeting of God’s firstborn children. Their names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all people. And you have come to the spirits of good people who have been made perfect.

Exodus 23:19

“When you gather your crops at harvest time, you should bring the first of everything you harvest to the house of the Lord your God. “You must not eat the meat from a young goat that is boiled in its mother’s milk.”

Exodus 13:1

Then the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 3:12

“I destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt. At that time I chose all the firstborn from every family in Israel to be mine in a special way. That included all the firstborn men and animals. But now I am choosing the Levites to take their place. Now they will be my special servants. I, the Lord, give this command!”

Nehemiah 10:36

“Just as it is also written in the law, this is what we will do: We will bring our firstborn sons and our firstborn cattle, sheep, and goats. We will bring these to the Temple of our God, to the priests who are serving there.

Ezekiel 16:20

“You and I had children together, but you took our children. You killed them and gave them to those false gods! But that is only some of the evil things you did when you were unfaithful to me and went to those false gods.

Ezekiel 16:21

You slaughtered my sons and then passed them through the fire to those false gods.

Exodus 22:28

“You must not curse God or the leaders of your people.

Nehemiah 10:37

“And we will also bring the first part of our harvest to priests to put in the storage rooms of our God’s Temple. We will bring the first of our ground meal, the first of our grain offerings, the first fruit from our trees, and the first of our new wine and oil. And we will bring a tenth of our crops to the Levites, because they are the ones who collect these things in all the towns where we work.