Exodus 34:20

34:20 Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.

“No one will appear before me empty-handed.


tn Heb “and the one that opens [the womb of] the donkey.”

sn See G. Brin, “The Firstling of Unclean Animals,” JQR 68 (1971): 1-15.

tn The form is the adverb “empty.”