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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Dedication of the First-Born</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_1"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.1" class="v1_13_1">1</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Moses, </span><span class="v1_13_2"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.2" class="v1_13_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> “Dedicate to me the first-born son of every family and the first-born males of your flocks and herds. These belong to me.”</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Festival of Thin Bread</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.3-Exod.13.4" class="v1_13_3">3-4</span>Moses said to the people:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_13_3">Remember this day in the month of Abib.<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.3-Exod.13.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> It is the day when the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s mighty power rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Do not eat anything made with yeast. </span><span class="v1_13_5"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.5" class="v1_13_5">5</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> promised your ancestors that he would bring you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites. It is a land rich with milk and honey.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_13_5">Each year during the month of Abib, celebrate these events in the following way: </span><span class="v1_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.6" class="v1_13_6">6</span>For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day you are to celebrate a festival in honor of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v1_13_7"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.7" class="v1_13_7">7</span>During those seven days, you must not eat anything made with yeast or even have yeast anywhere near your homes. </span><span class="v1_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.8" class="v1_13_8">8</span>Then on the seventh day you must explain to your children that you do this because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought you out of Egypt.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.9" class="v1_13_9">9</span>This celebration will be like wearing a sign on your hand or on your forehead, because then you will pass on to others the teaching of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, whose mighty power brought you out of Egypt. </span><span class="v1_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.10" class="v1_13_10">10</span>Celebrate this festival each year at the same time.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_13_11"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.11" class="v1_13_11">11</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will give you the land of the Canaanites, just as he promised you and your ancestors. </span><span class="v1_13_12"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.12" class="v1_13_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> From then on, you must give him every first-born son from your families and every first-born male from your animals, because these belong to him. </span><span class="v1_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.13" class="v1_13_13">13</span>You can spare the life of a first-born donkey<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> by sacrificing a lamb; if you don't, you must break the donkey's neck. You must spare every first-born son.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.14" class="v1_13_14">14</span>In the future your children will ask what this ceremony means. Explain it to them by saying, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> used his mighty power to rescue us from slavery in Egypt. </span><span class="v1_13_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.15" class="v1_13_15">15</span>The king<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.15!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> stubbornly refused to set us free, so the <span class="nd">Lord</span> killed the first-born male of every animal and the first-born son of every Egyptian family. This is why we sacrifice to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> every first-born male of every animal and save every first-born son.”</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_13_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.16" class="v1_13_16">16</span>This ceremony will serve the same purpose as a sign on your hand or on your forehead to tell how the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s mighty power rescued us from Egypt.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Leads His People</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.17" class="v1_13_17">17</span>After the king<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> had finally let the people go, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> did not lead them through Philistine territory,<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.17!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> though that was the shortest way. God had said, “If they are attacked, they may decide to return to Egypt.” </span><span class="v1_13_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.18" class="v1_13_18">18</span>So he led them around through the desert and toward the Red Sea.<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_18">The Israelites left Egypt, prepared for battle.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_19"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.19" class="v1_13_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Moses had them take the bones of Joseph, whose dying words had been, “God will come to your rescue, and when he does, be sure to take my bones with you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.20" class="v1_13_20">20</span>The people of Israel left Succoth and camped at Etham at the border of Egypt near the desert. </span><span class="v1_13_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.21-Exod.13.22" class="v1_13_21">21-22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.21-Exod.13.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> During the day the <span class="nd">Lord</span> went ahead of his people in a thick cloud, and during the night he went ahead of them in a flaming fire. That way the <span class="nd">Lord</span> could lead them at all times, whether day or night.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.3,4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Abib: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">donkey: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This was the only “unclean” animal that had to be spared; the first-born of all “clean” animals (sheep, goats, cattle) had to be sacrificed. Donkeys were important because they were the basic means of transportation.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.15 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The king: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.11.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">The king: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.11.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Philistine territory: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The shortest land route from the Nile Delta to Canaan; it was the southern section of the major road that led to Megiddo and then on to Mesopotamia by way of Asia Minor.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Red Sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew <char style="tl">yam suph</char>, “Sea of Reeds,” one of the marshes or fresh water lakes, near the eastern part of the Nile Delta. This identification is based on Exodus 13.17—14.9, which lists the towns on the route of the Israelites before crossing the sea. In the Greek translation of the Scriptures made about 200 <char style="sc">b.c.</char>, the “Sea of Reeds” was named “Red Sea.”</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. 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