Exodus 13:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Exodus 13:3

The Firstborn Consecrated

1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2 ^a“Consecrate¹ to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.”

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

3 And Moses said to the people: ^a“Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of¹ bondage; for ^bby strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. ^cNo leavened bread shall be eaten.

4 ^aOn this day you are going out, in the month Abib.

5 And it shall be, when the Lord ^abrings you into the ^bland of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He ^cswore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, ^dthat you shall keep this service in this month.

6 ^aSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.

7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And ^ano leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.

8 And you shall ^atell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.’

9 It shall be as ^aa sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.

10 ^aYou shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

The Law of the Firstborn

11 “And it shall be, when the Lord ^abrings you into the land of the ^bCanaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,

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In Exodus 13 we will see the command. But, what we are going to see is that the sense of His commands is metaphorical. It is not actual. Notice how He phrases this:

This is just after He mentioned to them to tell their sons what has been done in Egypt and why. This eating of unleavened bread, then, was to be a sign to the Israelites for what God has done.

Excerpted from The Pharisees (Part 3) by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

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