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Exodus 13:11-16. Redeem the firstborn. Disclosed instructional illustration: Hebrew father speaks gently to his attentive young son beside a young donkey and a lamb in a desert camp. Focus on father explaining and son listening; animals unharmed, no invented ritual or later priestly costume. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
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Exodus 13:11-16

Redeem the firstborn

Consecrate every firstborn · Exodus 13

Story guide: Israel is to set apart or redeem every firstborn and explain to their children why.

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11And when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

12you shall set apart to Yahweh every one that opens the womb, and every male firstborn of the livestock that you have belongs to Yahweh.

13And every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. And every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

14And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘By a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of servants.’

15And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh every male that opens the womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.

16And it shall be as a sign on your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for with a strong hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt.

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