Exo 13:2, Mat 7:6, Luk 2:23, Rom 11:16 | ESV | STEP | Consecrate to me all the firstborn . Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel , both of man and of beast , is mine.

Exodus 13:2

2 ^a“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

6 ^b“Do not give ^cdogs what is holy, and do not throw your ^dpearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

23 (as it is written in ^ethe Law of the Lord, ^f“Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)

16 ^gIf the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.