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Exodus 34:19
Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.
Exodus 34:19 · Bible in Basic English
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Exodus 34:19 in other translations
All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
The first offspring of every womb belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your livestock, whether cattle or sheep.
“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
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In context
16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
18 Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.
19 Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.
20 A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.
21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.
22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.
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