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All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
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Recognizing God's Ownership
Commentators explain that to "sanctify" the firstborn didn't mean making a special vow for it, but rather recognizing that it already belonged to God from birth. The commands not to work the animal or shear its wool were the practical ways Israelites acknowledged God's pre-existing ownership over the best of their increase.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
All the firstling males... you shall sanctify — that is, recognize them as the property of Jehovah by not using them for ordinary…
16th Century
Protestant
All the firstborn males. Another caution is added, that they should make no profit from the firstborn; for they might have used the labor …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All the firstling males that come of your herd, or of your flock, you shall sanctify unto the Lord your …
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…
