Exode 13:1-7

1 L'Eternel parla à Moïse, et dit:

2 Consacre-moi tout premier-né, tout premier-né parmi les enfants d'Israël, tant des hommes que des animaux: il m'appartient.

3 Moïse dit au peuple: Souvenez-vous de ce jour, où vous êtes sortis d'Egypte, de la maison de servitude; car c'est par sa main puissante que l'Eternel vous en a fait sortir. On ne mangera point de pain levé.

4 Vous sortez aujourd'hui, dans le mois des épis.

5 Quand l'Eternel t'aura fait entrer dans le pays des Cananéens, des Héthiens, des Amoréens, des Héviens et des Jébusiens, qu'il a juré à tes pères de te donner, pays où coulent le lait et le miel, tu rendras ce culte à l'Eternel dans ce même mois.

6 Pendant sept jours, tu mangeras des pains sans levain; et le septième jour, il y aura une fête en l'honneur de l'Eternel.

7 On mangera des pains sans levain pendant les sept jours; on ne verra point chez toi de pain levé, et l'on ne verra point chez toi de levain, dans toute l'étendue de ton pays.

Exode 13:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS 13

This chapter begins with an order to sanctify or set apart the firstborn of man and beast to the Lord, Ex 13:1,2 and the people of Israel are charged to keep the feast of unleavened bread in its season, from year to year, when they came into the land of Canaan, the reason of which they were to acquaint their children with, Ex 13:3-10 and they are also directed, when come into the land of Canaan, to set apart every firstling of a beast unto the Lord, and particularly the firstling of an ass was to be redeemed with a lamb, or its neck to be broke, and all the firstborn of men were to be redeemed also, Ex 13:11-13, and when their children inquired the reason of it, they were to be told it was on account of the Lord's slaying the firstborn of men and beast among the Egyptians, when Pharaoh would not let Israel go, and of saving the firstborn of his people, Ex 13:14-16, and it is observed, that when the children of Israel went out of Egypt, they were not led by the nearest way, the way of the land of the Philistines, but a round about way, the way of the wilderness of the Red sea, when they took the bones of Joseph with them, as he had adjured them to do, Ex 13:17-19, and the chapter is concluded with an account of their journeying from Succoth to Etham, the Lord going before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, Ex 13:20-22.