Exodus 13:2

New Century Version

“Give every firstborn male to me. Every firstborn male among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:36

We will bring to the Temple our firstborn sons and cattle and the firstborn of our herds and flocks, as it is written in the Teachings. We will bring them to the priests who are serving in the Temple.

Nehemiah 10:37

We will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the Temple the first of our ground meal, our offerings, the fruit from all our trees, and our new wine and oil. And we will bring a tenth of our crops to the Levites, who will collect these things in all the towns where we work.

Exodus 13:1

Then the Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 22:28

“You must not speak against God or curse a leader of your people.

Exodus 23:19

“You must bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the Holy Tent of the Lord your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Exodus 4:22

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

Ezekiel 16:20

“ ‘But your sexual sins were not enough for you. You also took your sons and daughters who were my children, and you sacrificed them to the idols as food.

Ezekiel 16:21

You killed my children and offered them up in fire to the idols.

Leviticus 27:26

“ ‘If an animal is the first one born to its parent, it already belongs to the Lord, so people may not give it again. If it is a cow or a sheep, it is the Lord’s.

Numbers 18:15

The first one born to any family, whether people or animals, will be offered to the Lord. And that will be yours. But you must make a payment for every firstborn child and every firstborn animal that is unclean.

Numbers 3:12

“I am choosing the Levites from all the Israelites to take the place of all the firstborn children of Israel. The Levites will be mine,

Numbers 3:13

because the firstborn are mine. When you were in Egypt, I killed all the firstborn children of the Egyptians and took all the firstborn of Israel to be mine, both animals and children. They are mine. I am the Lord.”

Luke 2:23

(It is written in the law of the Lord: “Every firstborn male shall be given to the Lord.”)

Deuteronomy 15:19

Save all the first male animals born to your herds and flocks. They are for the Lord your God. Do not work the first calf born to your oxen, and do not cut off the wool from the first lamb born to your sheep.

Hebrews 12:23

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