Exo 13:2-16, Deu 6:4-9, 11:13-21 | 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 13:2-16

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.”

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

3 Then Moses said to the people, ^b“Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, ^cfor by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. ^dNo leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 Today, in the month of ^eAbib, you are going out. 5 And when the Lord brings you into ^fthe land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which ^ghe swore to your fathers to give you, a land ^hflowing with milk and honey, ⁱyou shall keep this service in this month. 6 ^jSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory. 8 ^kYou shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 And it shall ^lbe to you as a sign on your hand and as ^ma memorial ⁿbetween your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. 10 ^oYou shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

11 “When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, ^pas he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, 12 ^qyou shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the Lord’s. 13 ^rEvery firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every ^sfirstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. 14 ^tAnd when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ^u‘By a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of ^vslavery. 15 For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the ^wLord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but ^xall the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ 16 ^yIt shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for ^zby a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

4 “Hear, O Israel: ^aaThe Lord our God, the Lord is one. ^{▼▼Or The Lord our God is one Lord; or The Lord is our God, the Lord is one; or The Lord is our God, the Lord alone} 5 You ^acshall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And ^adthese words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 ^aeYou shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 ^afYou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 ^agYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 11:13-21

13 “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, ^ahto love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 ^aihe ^{▼▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15} will give the rain for your land in its season, ^akthe early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. 15 ^alAnd he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and ^amyou shall eat and be full. 16 Take care ^anlest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and ^aoserve other gods and worship them; 17 then ^apthe anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he ^aqwill shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and ^aryou will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

18 ^as“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and ^atyou shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 20 ^auYou shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21 ^avthat your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, ^awas long as the heavens are above the earth.