Compare to Exodus 13:11 and following. The directions of the preceding legislation (see Numbers 18:15 and following) are here assumed, with the inj…

You shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year. —This connects the eating of the firstlings with the “second” tit…

You shall eat it before the Lord your God, year by year
Which, if understood of male firstlings, as in connection wi…

Here is instruction on what to do with the firstlings. We are not now limited as the Israelites were; we make no difference between a first calf, o…