22 Aug 2025 – jeffersonvann

Exodus 13

Exodus 13:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 13:2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

Exodus 13:3 Then Moses told the people, “Remember this day in which you exited Egypt, out from the house where you were a slave, because by strength of hand Yahveh rescued you from this slavery. No leavened bread is to be eaten.

Exodus 13:4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

Exodus 13:5 And when Yahveh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he solemnly promised to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you are to keep this ritual in this month.

Exodus 13:6 Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there will be a feast to Yahveh.

Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread will be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread is to be seen among you, and no leaven is to be seen with you in all your territory.

Exodus 13:8 You will tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what Yahveh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

Exodus 13:9 And it will be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that what Yahveh instructs may be in your mouth. Because Yahveh has brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand.

Exodus 13:10 You will therefore keep this permanent prescription at its appointed time from year to year.

Exodus 13:11 “When Yahveh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he solemnly promised to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,

Exodus 13:12 you are to set apart for Yahveh all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males will be Yahveh’s.

Exodus 13:13 Every firstborn of a donkey you will redeem with a lamb, or if you choose not to redeem it you will break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you will redeem.

Exodus 13:14 And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you should say to him, ‘By a strong hand Yahveh brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

Exodus 13:15 Because when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to send us away, Yahveh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. For this reason, I sacrifice to Yahveh all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

Exodus 13:16 It will be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, because by a strong hand Yahveh brought us out of Egypt.”

Exodus 13:17 When Pharaoh sent the people away, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. Because God said, “The people might change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”

Exodus 13:18 So God led the people around by the way of the open country toward the Red Sea. And the sons of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt grouped in fifties.

Exodus 13:19 Moses took the mummified remains of Joseph with him, because Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly promise, and this is what he said, “God will surely visit you, then you are to carry up my mummified remains with you from here.”

Exodus 13:20 And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the open country.

Exodus 13:21 And Yahveh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day and by night.

Exodus 13:22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not leave the presence of the people.

Exodus 13 quotes:

“Before leaving Exodus and seeing what the New Testament makes of some of these events, we should notice Exodus 13:1-2 and 13:11-13. These verses talk about the concept of the firstborn. Exodus 4:22 made clear that Israel was God’s son. God delivered his son out of Egypt (or ‘redeemed’ him from Egypt) at the cost of the death of Egypt’s firstborn sons. As a result of this, the firstborn of every womb in Israel belongs to God. However, God allows a substitute to take place, and ceremonies where substitutes are sacrificed are to be observed by the Israelites as a continual reminder of the lengths that God will go to in order to save his firstborn son, Israel. The redeeming of a donkey with a lamb symbolically represents what God did for Israel in the tenth plague.”

Reid, Andrew. Out of Darkness : Exodus 1- 18. Matthias Media, 2005. p. 46.

“Moses and his brother Aaron confronted Pharaoh, and after a series of ten plagues, culminating in the death of all of the firstborn in Egypt, led the children of Israel out of Egypt to the land God had promised them. Jehovah went before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night (Exodus 13:21-22). On the way, in the wilderness, the glory of God appeared to Moses and the children of Israel (Exodus 16:7-10). Later, at Mount Sinai, God manifested His glory several times to the children of Israel in a series of wonderous events (Exodus 19:1 through 31:35). He also revealed His glory from time to time during the forty years in the wilderness.”

Hanson, H. Allen. They Shall See God. Xulon Press, 2010. p. 81.

“The pillar was also the guide, leading the people on, and stopping each night and at other times for a period of encampment. It was the guide for forty years. Indeed, we could go a little further in considering the pillar of fire. The common understanding is that the pillar went before the people as their guide, in the form of the pillar of cloud, and that is true. We therefore tend to think that the pillar of fire was more static, for the people were normally camped at night, when the pillar took that form. But Exodus 13:21 makes it clear that on occasion the Israelites travelled by night as well as by day. What they had to do was to follow the pillar when it lifted from its place. And when they travelled at the command of the pillar by night it not only guided and protected them, it also illuminated the actual path in which they had to tread.

Lyall, Francis. The I Ams of Jesus. Mentor, 1996. p. 57.