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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 GNT</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="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">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 all the first-born males to me, for every first-born male Israelite and every first-born male animal belongs to me.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Festival of Unleavened Bread</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.3" class="v1_13_3">3</span>Moses said to the people, “Remember this day—the day on which you left Egypt, the place where you were slaves. This is the day the <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought you out by his great power. No leavened bread is to be eaten. </span><span class="v1_13_4"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.4" class="v1_13_4">4</span>You are leaving Egypt on this day in the first month, the month of Abib. </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> solemnly promised your ancestors to give you the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. When he brings you into that rich and fertile land, you must celebrate this festival in the first month of every year. </span><span class="v1_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.6" class="v1_13_6">6</span>For seven days you must eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to honor 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>For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land. </span><span class="v1_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.8" class="v1_13_8">8</span>When the festival begins, explain to your sons that you do all this because of what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> did for you when you left Egypt. </span><span class="v1_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.9" class="v1_13_9">9</span>This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on your hand or on your forehead; it will remind you to continue to recite and study the Law of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought you out of Egypt by his great power. </span><span class="v1_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.10" class="v1_13_10">10</span>Celebrate this festival at the appointed time each year.</span></p><h3 class="s">The First-Born</h3><p class="par"><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 bring you into the land of the Canaanites, which he solemnly promised to you and your ancestors. When he gives it to you, </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> you must offer every first-born male to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. Every first-born male of your animals belongs to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, </span><span class="v1_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.13" class="v1_13_13">13</span>but you must buy back from him every first-born male donkey by offering a lamb in its place. If you do not want to buy back the donkey, break its neck. You must buy back every first-born male child of yours. </span><span class="v1_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.14" class="v1_13_14">14</span>In the future, when your son asks what this observance means, you will answer him, ‘By using great power the <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt, the place where we were slaves. </span><span class="v1_13_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.15" class="v1_13_15">15</span>When the king of Egypt was stubborn and refused to let us go, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> killed every first-born male in the land of Egypt, both human and animal. That is why we sacrifice every first-born male animal to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, but buy back our first-born sons. </span><span class="v1_13_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.16" class="v1_13_16">16</span>This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on our hands or on our foreheads; it will remind us that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought us out of Egypt by his great power.’”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Pillar of Cloud and the Pillar of Fire</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.17" class="v1_13_17">17</span>When the king of Egypt let the people go, God did not take them by the road that goes up the coast to Philistia, although it was the shortest way. God thought, “I do not want the people to change their minds and return to Egypt when they see that they are going to have to fight.” </span><span class="v1_13_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.18" class="v1_13_18">18</span>Instead, he led them in a roundabout way through the desert toward the Red Sea.<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> The Israelites were armed 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 took the body of Joseph with him, as Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly promise to do. Joseph had said, “When God rescues you, you must carry my body with you from this place.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_13_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.20" class="v1_13_20">20</span>The Israelites left Sukkoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. </span><span class="v1_13_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.21" class="v1_13_21">21</span>During the day the <span class="nd">Lord</span> went in front of them in a pillar of cloud to show them the way, and during the night he went in front of them in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel night and day. </span><span class="v1_13_22"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.13.22" class="v1_13_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.13.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The pillar of cloud was always in front of the people during the day, and the pillar of fire at night.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.18: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Red Sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">(in Hebrew literally “Sea of Reeds”) evidently referred to (1) a series of lakes and marshes between the head of the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean, the region generally regarded as the site of the events described in Exodus 13, and was also used to designate (2) the Gulf of Suez, and (3) the Gulf of Aqaba.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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