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Text -- Exodus 13:5-22 (NET)
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13:5 When the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanites , Hittites , Amorites , Hivites , and Jebusites , which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey , then you will keep this ceremony in this month .
13:6 For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast , and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord .
13:7 Bread made without yeast must be eaten for seven days ; no bread made with yeast shall be seen among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders .
13:8 You are to tell your son on that day , ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt .’
13:9 It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead , so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth , for with a mighty hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt .
13:10 So you must keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year .
13:11 When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites , as he swore to you and to your fathers , and gives it to you,
13:12 then you must give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb . Every firstling of a beast that you have – the males will be the Lord’s .
13:13 Every firstling of a donkey you must redeem with a lamb , and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck . Every firstborn of your sons you must redeem .
13:14 In the future , when your son asks you ‘What is this ?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt , from the land of slavery .
13:15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt , from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals . That is why I am sacrificing to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb , but all my firstborn sons I redeem .’
13:16 It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead , for with a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt .”
The Leading of God
13:17 When Pharaoh released the people , God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines , although that was nearby , for God said , “Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war .”
13:18 So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea , and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle .
13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear , “God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you.”
13:20 They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham , on the edge of the desert .
13:21 Now the Lord was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way , and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light , so that they could travel day or night .
13:22 He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Passover |
Moses |
Frontlets |
Token |
Quotations and Allusions |
Judgments |
Sin |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 2 |
Israel |
FRONTLETS, OR PHYLACTERIES |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Firstborn |
Instruction |
Phylactery |
Phylacteries |
Children |
Thankfulness |
God |
Memorial |
Red Sea |
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NET Notes -> Exo 13:5; Exo 13:5; Exo 13:5; Exo 13:5; Exo 13:6; Exo 13:6; Exo 13:6; Exo 13:7; Exo 13:7; Exo 13:7; Exo 13:8; Exo 13:8; Exo 13:8; Exo 13:8; Exo 13:8; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:9; Exo 13:10; Exo 13:10; Exo 13:11; Exo 13:11; Exo 13:11; Exo 13:12; Exo 13:12; Exo 13:12; Exo 13:12; Exo 13:12; Exo 13:12; Exo 13:13; Exo 13:13; Exo 13:13; Exo 13:13; Exo 13:13; Exo 13:14; Exo 13:14; Exo 13:14; Exo 13:14; Exo 13:14; Exo 13:14; Exo 13:15; Exo 13:15; Exo 13:15; Exo 13:16; Exo 13:16; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:17; Exo 13:18; Exo 13:18; Exo 13:18; Exo 13:19; Exo 13:19; Exo 13:19; Exo 13:19; Exo 13:21; Exo 13:21; Exo 13:21; Exo 13:22
NET Notes: Exo 13:5 The object is a cognate accusative for emphasis on the meaning of the service – “you will serve this service.” W. C. Kaiser notes ho...
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NET Notes: Exo 13:8 The text uses זֶה (zeh), which Gesenius classifies as the use of the pronoun to introduce a relative clause after the preposition (G...
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NET Notes: Exo 13:9 This causal clause gives the reason for what has just been instructed. Because Yahweh delivered them from bondage, he has the strongest claims on thei...
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NET Notes: Exo 13:11 The verb וּנְתָנָהּ (unÿtanah) is the Qal perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive;...
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NET Notes: Exo 13:12 The Hebrew text simply has “the males to Yahweh.” It indicates that the Lord must have them, or they belong to the Lord.
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NET Notes: Exo 13:13 One was to sacrifice the firstborn animals to Yahweh, but the children were to be redeemed by their fathers. The redemption price was five shekels (Nu...
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NET Notes: Exo 13:16 The pattern of the passage now emerges more clearly; it concerns the grateful debt of the redeemed. In the first part eating the unleavened bread reca...
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NET Notes: Exo 13:18 The term חֲמֻשִׁים (khamushim) is placed first for emphasis; it forms a circumstantial clause, e...
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NET Notes: Exo 13:19 The form is a Hiphil perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; it follows in the sequence of the imperfect tense before it, and so is equal to an im...
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