Consecration of the Firstborn

Exodus 13:1-16

The Lord said to Moses, “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.

For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival to the Lord. Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.

You are to give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the Lord. Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem every firstborn among your sons.

The events are to be further commemorated in two ways: 

For a seven-day period after Passover, the people are to eat unleavened bread as a reminder of the hasty departure from Egypt. 

As Israel's freedom has been purchased by the death of the firstborn of Egypt, the nation's firstborn belong in a special sense to God and are to be 'bought back'.

Why?

On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

This is to remember what the Lord did for us when I was a slave in sins, through Jesus's blood I got salvation, so I will go to worship the Lord on Sunday.

The Lord did this miracle thing in history gives us the record to know who is the Lord.

The memory is keeping in their daily life, so as to be a Christian should witness the Holy name of the Lord in our daily life.

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不僅不可吃有酵的東西，連看到都不可。無酵代表不易察覺的影響力。原因起初是因為離開埃及要趕快多離開埃及比準備食物更重要，跟隨主比生活中準備好了更重要。這個與分別為聖有關係。要分別就要趕快，要徹底的分別。所以逾越節頭生的歸給神，要分別為聖歸給神。如何具體表現分別為聖，而是在生活中最基本的活動，即吃最重要，從吃開始。不再留戀世界，完全的斷絕，所以不要看到，讓自己不受影響。我們生活是否離開罪惡、離開埃及。

人是健忘的，所以用有形之物來提醒自己。

我們的財產最終的主權屬於誰的?我們的吃喝生活方式都在乎神。財產損失幾乎是我們生活的目標，也是要歸給神。當我們願意把頭生的歸給神，神就要給我們更豐盛。我們的一切都是屬於神，為了神！

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How?

Consecration of myself, for I belong to the Lord, God has redeemed me from sins, the death.