As Israel is in the midst of leaving Egypt, Moses continued to explain how they were to be a consecrated people, first by keeping the Feast of Unleavened Bread, but also by setting apart the males that open the womb. The males of both mankind and of animals. They were to consecrate them to the Lord. We find later for the clean animals, they were to keep them and rejoice before the Lord with them in the place where He puts His name for things like the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. For unclean animals, specifically for donkeys, you were required to redeem the animal with a lamb. If it is not redeemed with a lamb, then you need to break the neck of the donkey. It is by the sacrifice of the lamb that the unclean is made acceptable. A clear type of the gospel. For a firstborn son, you must pay money to redeem him. Again, just like was spoken of in previous verses, part of the reason to do this is to get your children to question the behavior. God gave natural curiosity to children to give you an opportunity to explain the things of God. Make certain that you are using those opportunities. As they killed the lamb, they were to speak to their children about the power of God that was able to deliver a large group of people that were in slavery and how God judged the Egyptians by killing their firstborn sons. The actions they did were to be a sign on your hand and as frontlets between their eyes. The passage then continues to speak of how God led them out after killing the firstborns in Egypt. He led them to avoid the Philistines in the direction that using human wisdom no one would ever take, putting a large sea between you and your destination.
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