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Exodus 34:20 KJV
Exodus · chapter 34 · verse 20
But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.Exodus 34:20 · King James Version
Exodus 34:20 in context
18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
19All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
20But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- firstlingpeṭera fissureH6363 →
- firstbornbᵉkôwrfirstbornH1060 →
- redeempâdâhto severH6299 →
- appearrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- lambseha member of a flockH7716 →
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Here is a repetition of several appointments made before, especially relating to their solemn feasts. When they had made the calf, they proclaimed a feast in honour of it; now, that they might never do so again, they are here charged with the observance of the feasts which God had instituted.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 18-27