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17 You shall not make any idols[a] for yourselves.

The Covenant Festivals

18 You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread.[b] For seven days you are to eat bread without yeast, as I commanded you. Eat it at the time appointed in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib.

19 The firstborn of every mother[c] is mine—the firstborn from all your male livestock, the firstborn of cattle and sheep.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:17 The Hebrew word used here for idol refers to idols cast out of metal, but here it may simply be used as a generic name for all idols.
  2. Exodus 34:18 The week following the Passover in spring
  3. Exodus 34:19 Literally every opener of the womb. Jewish tradition pays more attention to the firstborn of fathers.