Numbers 3:13

New International Version

for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the Lord.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:36

“As it is also written in the Law, we will bring the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests ministering there.

Exodus 13:12

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.

Exodus 13:15

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’

Exodus 13:2

“Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

Exodus 22:29

“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. “You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 34:19

“The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.

Ezekiel 44:30

The best of all the firstfruits and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal so that a blessing may rest on your household.

Leviticus 27:26

“ ‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the Lord; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the Lord’s.

Numbers 18:15

The first offspring of every womb, both human and animal, that is offered to the Lord is yours. But you must redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.

Numbers 18:6

I myself have selected your fellow Levites from among the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to the Lord to do the work at the tent of meeting.

Numbers 3:41

Take the Levites for me in place of all the firstborn of the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the livestock of the Israelites. I am the Lord.”

Numbers 33:4

who were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them; for the Lord had brought judgment on their gods.

Luke 2:23

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”),

Hebrews 12:23

to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,