Exodus 13:11-13 - The Biblical Illustrator

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All the firstborn.

Firstborn to be dedicated to God

1. Jehovah is the beginning and end of His own ordinances. He sets them for Himself.

2. The Church must act these duties from God unto God Himself.

3. All that God requires must His people make to pass from them to Him.

4. Firstborn males of beasts God required in the law for special use to Himself (Exodus 13:12).

5. Clean and unclean among creatures is a distinction made by God for men, not for Himself.

6. God hath a proprietary in all creatures be they never so unclean.

7. God hath ordered redemption for unclean by putting the clean in their stead.

8. Unclean unredeemed must be destroyed.

9. A price hath God set for man’s redemption to gain a Church of the firstborn.

10. The law of the firstborn hath its truth and accomplishment in Christ Jesus, “the Firstborn of every creature” (Colossians 1:15; verse 13). (G. Hughes, B. D.)

Related Commentaries of Exodus 13:11

Exodus 13:11-13

11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S.

13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb;b and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.