Éxodo 13:1-9

1 Y el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

2 Santifícame todo primogénito, cualquiera que abre matriz entre los hijos de Israel, así de los hombres como de las bestias; porque mío es.

3 Y Moisés dijo al pueblo: Tened memoria de este día, en el cual habéis salido de Egipto, de la casa de servidumbre; pues el SEÑOR os ha sacado de aquí con mano fuerte; por tanto, no comeréis leudado.

4 Vosotros salís hoy en el mes de Abib.

5 Y cuando el SEÑOR te hubiere metido en la tierra del cananeo, y del heteo, y del amorreo, y del heveo, y del jebuseo, la cual juró a tus padres que te daría, tierra que destila leche y miel, harás este servicio en este mes.

6 Siete días comerás por leudar, y el séptimo día será fiesta al SEÑOR.

7 Por los siete días se comerán los panes sin levadura; y no se verá contigo nada leudado, ni levadura en todo tu término.

8 Y contarás en aquel día a tu hijo, diciendo: Se hace esto con motivo de lo que el SEÑOR hizo conmigo cuando me sacó de Egipto.

9 Y te será como una señal sobre tu mano, y como una memoria delante de tus ojos, para que la ley del SEÑOR esté en tu boca; por cuanto con mano fuerte te sacó el SEÑOR de Egipto.

Éxodo 13:1-9 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.