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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 NET Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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it is mine.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Moses said to the people, “Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the place where you were enslaved, for the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> brought you out of there with a mighty hand – and no bread made with yeast may be eaten. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>On this day, in the month of Abib, you are going out.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> brings you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, then you will keep this ceremony in this month. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Bread made without yeast must be eaten for seven days; no bread made with yeast shall be seen among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span> It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> brought you out of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So you must keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>then you must give over to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have – the males will be the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Every firstling of a donkey you must redeem with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, then you must break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In the future, when your son asks you ‘What is this?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt.”</p> <p class="title">The Leading of God</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, “Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear, “God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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