Exodus 13:14-15

13:14 ¹ In the future, ²  when your son asks you ³  ‘What is this?’ ⁴  you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand ⁵  the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery. ⁶  13:15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused ⁷  to release us, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. ⁸  That is why I am sacrificing ⁹  to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’

Exodus 29:44

29:44 “So I will set apart as holy ¹⁰  the tent of meeting and the altar, and I will set apart as holy Aaron and his sons, that they may minister as priests to me.

Leviticus 27:14-15

Redemption of Vowed Houses

27:14 “‘If a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. Just as the priest establishes its conversion value, thus it will stand. ¹¹  27:15 If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him. ¹² 

Leviticus 27:26

Redemption of the Firstborn

27:26 “‘Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the Lord as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the Lord. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 20:12

20:12 I also gave them my Sabbaths ¹⁴  as a reminder of our relationship, ¹⁵  so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. ¹⁶ 

John 10:36

10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart ¹⁷  and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 17:19

17:19 And I set myself apart ¹⁸  on their behalf, ¹⁹  so that they too may be truly set apart. ²⁰ 

Hebrews 10:29

10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ²¹  the Son of God, and profanes ²²  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ²³  and insults the Spirit of grace?

James 1:18

1:18 By his sovereign plan he gave us birth ²⁴  through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

[13:14]  ¹ sn As with v. 8, the Law now requires that the children be instructed on the meaning of this observance. It is a memorial of the deliverance from bondage and the killing of the firstborn in Egypt.

[13:14]  ² tn Heb “tomorrow.”

[13:14]  ³ tn Heb “and it will be when your son will ask you.”

[13:14]  ⁴ tn The question is cryptic; it simply says, “What is this?” but certainly refers to the custom just mentioned. It asks, “What does this mean?” or “Why do we do this?”

[13:14]  ⁵ tn The expression is “with strength of hand,” making “hand” the genitive of specification. In translation “strength” becomes the modifier, because “hand” specifies where the strength was. But of course the whole expression is anthropomorphic for the power of God.

[13:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “house of slaves.”

[13:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “dealt hardly in letting us go” or “made it hard to let us go” (see S. R. Driver, Exodus, 110). The verb is the simple Hiphil perfect הִקְשָׁה (hiqshah, “he made hard”); the infinitive construct לְשַׁלְּחֵנוּ (lÿshallÿkhenu, “to release us”) could be taken epexegetically, meaning “he made releasing us hard.” But the infinitive more likely gives the purpose or the result after the verb “hardened himself.” The verb is figurative for “be stubborn” or “stubbornly refuse.”

[13:15]  ⁸ tn The text uses “man” and “beast.”

[13:15]  ⁹ tn The form is the active participle.

[29:44]  ¹⁰ tn This verse affirms the same point as the last, but now with an active verb: “I will set apart as holy” (or “I will sanctify”). This verse, then, probably introduces the conclusion of the chapter: “So I will….”

[27:14]  ¹¹ tn The expression “it shall stand” may be a technical term for “it shall be legally valid”; cf. NLT “assessment will be final.”

[27:15]  ¹² tn Heb “and it shall be to him.”

[27:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “to the Lord it is.”

[20:12]  ¹⁴ sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).

[20:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to become a sign between me and them.”

[20:12]  ¹⁶ tn Or “set them apart.” The last phrase of verse 12 appears to be a citation of Exod 31:13.

[10:36]  ¹⁷ tn Or “dedicated.”

[17:19]  ¹⁸ tn Or “I sanctify.”

[17:19]  ¹⁹ tn Or “for their sake.”

[17:19]  ²⁰ tn Or “they may be truly consecrated,” or “they may be truly sanctified.”

[10:29]  ²¹ tn Grk “tramples under foot.”

[10:29]  ²² tn Grk “regarded as common.”

[10:29]  ²³ tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”

[1:18]  ²⁴ tn Grk “Having willed, he gave us birth.”