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Exodus 34:20
“The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.”
Verse in context — Exodus 34
You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.
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God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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