“Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the Lord.”
For all the firstborn are mine; on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified unto me all the firstborn in Israel — the rationale for Levitical substitution reaches back to the Exodus itself, where God's judgment on Egypt's firstborn created a debt Israel cannot repay except through dedicated service. The sanctification of Israel's firstborn is not temporal but eternal, obligating each generation to acknowledge God's redemptive power.
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