Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 The Lord told Moses,2 “Every firstborn male is to be dedicated to me. The firstborn from every Israelite family belongs to me, and also every firstborn animal.”

3 So Moses told the people, “Remember this is the day you left Egypt, the land of your slavery, for the Lord led you out of it by his amazing power. (Nothing with yeast in it shall be eaten.)4 Today you are on your way, this day in the month of Abib.5 The Lord is going to take you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, the land he promised your forefathers he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey. So you are to observe this ceremony in this month.6 For seven days you are to only eat bread without yeast, and on the seventh day hold a religious festival to honor the Lord.7 Only bread without yeast is to be eaten during those seven days. You are not to have any yeast, in fact there is to be no yeast in any place where you live.

8 On that day tell your children, ‘This is because of what the Lord did for me when I left Egypt.’9 When you celebrate this ceremony it will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder between your eyes that this teaching of the Lord should be spoken about regularly. For the Lord led you out of Egypt with his great power.10 That's why you are to observe this ceremony at the proper time every year.11 Once the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as he promised you and your forefathers,12 you are to present to the Lord all firstborn males, human or animal. The firstborn males of your livestock all belong to the Lord.13 You must buy back every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you don't do so, you have to break its neck. You must buy back every firstborn of your sons.

14 When in the future your children come to you and ask, ‘Why is this ceremony important to you?’ you are to tell them, ‘The Lord led us out of Egypt, the land of our slavery, by his amazing power.

Exodus 13: 1-14