In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
The firstborn of clean beasts must be sacrificed, and the unclean redeemed with a lamb or destroyed; whatever is unclean by nature, unredeemed, will be destroyed. Your children are polluted too and must be redeemed by blood, that they may belong to the Church of the Firstborn, just as you were delivered by God's hand from the destroying angel.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 13:11-16
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come,.... Or "on the morrow" (h), the day following such a separation of the firstborn of clean creatures, or such a redemption of the firstborn of unclean ones, and of man, or in any later time: saying, what is this? what is the meaning of this? for what reason are such things done?
Everything that opened the womb must be given up to Jehovah as a sacrifice when Israel enters the land. The male firstborn of clean domestic animals belongs to God to be sacrificed; unclean animals like the ass must be redeemed with a lamb or killed; female firstborn of man and beast are exempted.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 13:11-14