Éxodo 13:1-7

1 Dedicación de los primeros hijos varones
Luego el Señor
le dijo a Moisés:

2 «Dedícame a todos los primeros hijos varones del pueblo de Israel. Todo primer nacido, tanto de los seres humanos como de los animales, me pertenece».

3 Entonces Moisés dijo a los israelitas: «Este es un día para recordar por siempre: es el día que salieron de Egipto, donde eran esclavos. Hoy el Señor
los sacó con la fuerza de su mano poderosa. (Recuerden no comer nada que contenga levadura).

4 Este preciso día, a comienzos de la primavera, en el mes de
ustedes fueron liberados.

5 Una vez que el Señor
los haga entrar en la tierra de los cananeos, los hititas, los amorreos, los heveos y los jebuseos, deberán celebrar este suceso cada año, en este mes. (Él les juró a sus antepasados que les daría esa tierra, una tierra donde fluyen la leche y la miel).

6 Durante siete días tendrán que preparar sin levadura el pan que coman. Entonces el séptimo día celebrarán una fiesta al Señor
.

7 En esos siete días, coman pan sin levadura. De hecho, durante ese período, no debe haber pan con levadura ni ningún rastro de levadura dentro de su territorio.

Éxodo 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.