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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 13 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Exodus 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/12.htm" title="Exodus 12">◄</a> Exodus 13 <a href="../exodus/14.htm" title="Exodus 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/exodus/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Consecration of the Firstborn</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Moses, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“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.”</p> <p class="heading">The Feast of Unleavened Bread</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has brought you out of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“When the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>you shall set apart to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt.”</p> <p class="heading">Pillars of Cloud and Fire</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Samaritan, Septuagint; Hebrew he">a</a></sup></span> had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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, that they might travel by day and by night. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Samaritan, Septuagint; Hebrew <i>he</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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