Éxodo 13:16

16 Te será, pues, como una señal sobre tu mano, y por un memorial delante de tus ojos: Que el SEÑOR nos sacó de Egipto con mano fuerte

Éxodo 13:16 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 13:16

And it shall be for a token upon thine head, and for frontlets
between thine eyes
These laws observed concerning the setting apart the firstlings of their beasts, the redemption of the firstborn of unclean ones, and of the firstborn of men, will bring the reason of it, the destruction of the firstborn of Egypt, and the preservation of the firstborn of Israel, as fresh to remembrance as any token upon the hand, put there to bring things to mind; and it will be as easily and as clearly discerned as anything upon a man's forehead may be seen by another: for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt:
which is often mentioned, that it might be observed; it being the signs and wonders which the omnipotent hand of God wrought, especially the last, which worked upon Pharaoh, to let the people of Israel go; and their posterity, in all succeeding ages, would speak of this affair as if personally concerned in it, they being then in the loins of their ancestors, and represented by them, as well as they reaped and enjoyed all the benefits of that wonderful deliverance, the possession of the land of Canaan, and the blessings of it, as well as many other privileges both of a civil and religious kind. And so Maimonides ^F11 says,

``in every age a man is obliged to consider himself as if he in himself now went out of the bondage of Egypt, as it is said, "and he brought us forth from thence"''

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Hilchot Chametz Umetzah, c. 7. sect. 6.

Éxodo 13:16 In-Context

14 Y cuando mañana te preguntare tu hijo, diciendo: ¿Qué es esto? Le dirás: El SEÑOR nos sacó con mano fuerte de Egipto, de casa de servidumbre

15 y endureciéndose el Faraón en no dejarnos ir, el SEÑOR mató en la tierra de Egipto a todo primogénito, desde el primogénito humano hasta el primogénito de la bestia; y por esta causa yo sacrifico al SEÑOR todo macho que abre matriz, y rescato todo primogénito de mis hijos

16 Te será, pues, como una señal sobre tu mano, y por un memorial delante de tus ojos: Que el SEÑOR nos sacó de Egipto con mano fuerte

17 Y luego que el Faraón dejó ir al pueblo, Dios no los llevó por el camino de la tierra de los filisteos, que estaba cerca; porque dijo Dios: Que por ventura no se arrepienta el pueblo cuando vieren la guerra, y se vuelvan a Egipto

18 mas hizo Dios al pueblo que rodeara por el camino del desierto del mar Bermejo. Y subieron los hijos de Israel de Egipto armados