Exodus:13

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* And the LORD spoke to Moses , saying , * Sanctify all the first-born to Me , whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel , of man and of beast . It [is ] Mine . * And Moses said to the people , Remember this day [in ] which you came out of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . For the LORD brought you out from this place by the strength of His hand . There shall be no leavened bread eaten . * You are going out this day in the month Abib . * And it shall be when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites , and the Hittites , and the Amorites , and the Hivites , and the Jebusites , which He swore to your fathers to give you , a land flowing with milk and honey , that you shall keep this service in this month . * You shall eat unleavened [bread ] seven days , and in the seventh day [shall be ] a feast to the LORD . * Unleavened [bread ] shall be eaten seven days . And there shall be no leavened [bread ] seen with you , nor shall there be leaven seen with you in all your borders . * And you shall tell your son in that day , saying , This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out from Egypt . * And it shall be a sign to you upon your hand , and for a memorial between your eyes , that the LORD 's law may be in your mouth . For the Lord has brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand . * You shall therefore keep this law in its season from year to year . * And it will be , when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanites , as He swore to you and to your fathers , and shall give it to you , * you shall set apart to the LORD every one that opens the womb , and every first-born that comes of any animal which you have ; the males [shall be ] the LORD 's . * And every first-born of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb . And if you will not redeem it , then you shall break its neck . And all the first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem . * And it shall be when your sons asks you in time to come , saying , What [is ] this ? you shall say to him , The LORD brought us out of Egypt by the strength of [His ] hand , from the house of bondage . * And it happened when Pharaoh would hardly let us go , the LORD killed all the first-born of the land of Egypt , both the first-born of man , and the first-born of animals . Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb , that are males . But all the first-born of my sons I redeem . * And it shall be for a token upon your hand , and for frontlets between your eyes . For the LORD brought us out from Egypt by strength of [His ] hand . * And it happened , when Pharaoh had let the people go , God did not lead them [by ] the way of the land of the Philistines although that [was ] near . For God said , Lest the people repent when they see war , and they return to Egypt . * But God led the people around , [by ] the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea . And the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt . * And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him . For he had strictly sworn the sons of Israel , saying , God will surely visit you , and you shall carry my bones away from here with you . * And they moved from Succoth and camped in Etham , in the edge of the wilderness . * And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud , to lead them the right away , and by night in a pillar of fire , to give them light , to go by day and night . * He did not take away the pillar of the cloud by day , nor the pillar of fire by night , [from ] before the people .

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