EXODUS 13:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord’s.”
You are to give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the Lord. The principle of Exodus 13:1–2 is now applied with the practical detail of agricultural life in the land: every firstborn male animal is given to the Lord. The giving over — haavartta — means to cause to pass over, to transfer. The firstborn are transferred from human ownership to divine ownership through the act of consecration. Proverbs 3:9 says honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops — the firstborn consecration is the prototype of the principle that the first and best of what God gives belongs back to God. The transfer acknowledges that the giver of life owns the first life produced by the life He gave.
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