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Exodus 13 📜 📕 ↷
Dedication of the Firstborn
1 AND our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:📜💬📚
2 Sanctify unto me every first-born that openeth the matrice in the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts; for they are all mine.📜💬📚
3 And Moyses said to the people: Remember this day in the which you went forth out of AEgypt, & out of the house of servitude, because with a strong hand hath our Lord brought you forth out of this place; that you eat not leavened bread.📜💬📚
4 This day you go forth in the month of new corn.📜💬📚
5 And when our Lord shall have brought thee into the Land of Chanaaneite and Hetheite & Amorrheite & Heveite & Jebuseite, which he sware to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month.📜💬📚
6 Seven days shalt thou eat azymes: and in the seventh day shall be the solemnity of our Lord.📜💬📚
7 Azymes shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any leavened thing with thee, nor in all thy coasts.📜💬📚
8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is that which our Lord did to me when I came forth out of AEgypt.📜💬📚
9 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a monument before thine eyes: and that the law of our Lord be always in the mouth, for in a strong hand our Lord hath brought thee out of AEgypt.📜💬📚
10 Thou shalt keep this observation at the set time from days to days.📜💬📚
11 And when our Lord shall have brought thee into the Land of the Chanaaneite, as he sware to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee,📜💬📚
12 thou shalt separate all that openeth the matrice unto our Lord, and all that is brought forth in thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of male sex thou shalt consecrate to our Lord.📜💬📚
13 The first-born of an ass thou shall change for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every first-born of men among thy children, thou shalt redeem with a price.📜💬📚
14 And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow saying: What is this? Thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did our Lord bring us forth out of the land of AEgypt, out of the house of servitude.📜💬📚
15 For when Pharao's heart was indurate, and would not dismiss us, our Lord slew every first-born in the Land of AEgypt, from the first-born of man to the first-born of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to our Lord all that openeth the matrice of the male sex, and all the first-born of my sons I do redeem.📜💬📚
16 It shall be therefore as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hanged before thine eyes, for a remembrance: because our Lord by a strong hand hath brought us forth out of AEgypt.📜💬📚
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
17 Therefore when Pharao had sent forth the people, our Lord led them not by the way of the Philisthiin's country which is near: thinking lest perhaps it would repent them, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into AEgypt.📜💬📚
18 But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is besides the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up out of the Land of AEgypt armed.📜💬📚
19 Moyses also took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.📜💬📚
20 And marching from Socoth they camped in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.📜💬📚
21 And our Lord went before them to shew the way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire: that he might be the guide of their journey both times.📜💬📚
22 There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.📜💬📚
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