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20 Now the firstling[a] of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck.[b] You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.

“No one will appear before me empty-handed.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:20 tn Heb “and the one that opens [the womb of] the donkey.”
  2. Exodus 34:20 sn See G. Brin, “The Firstling of Unclean Animals,” JQR 68 (1971): 1-15.
  3. Exodus 34:20 tn The form is the adverb “empty.”