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Exodus 13:15Exod.13.15

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

et, comme Pharaon s'obstinait à ne point nous laisser aller, l'Eternel fit mourir tous les premiers-nés dans le pays d'Egypte, depuis les premiers-nés des hommes jusqu'aux premiers-nés des animaux. Voilà pourquoi j'offre en sacrifice à l'Eternel tout premier-né des mâles, et je rachète tout premier-né de mes fils.

KJV

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.

Patristic reading

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  • Ratramnus

    On the Fact that Christ Was Born of a Virgin

    ore, sacrifice to the Lord every male that opens the womb, and redeem all the firstborn of my sons" (Exodus 13:13-15). Note that the firstborn are those who, by being born first, open the womb, so that you may understand that being born of a woman means coming out through the wom…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 131 (Migne)

    Nam et in lege praecipitur omne primogenitum masculini sexus quinque siclis argenti debere redimi. (Exod. XIII, 15.) Quod vero quatuor partes permittebantur habere, hoc designat quod unusquisque in laicali conversatione, hoc est actuali, secundum suum propositum vel facultatem p…

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