Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving.
4. This day came ye out. He compares the day of their coming out with the whole time of their sojourning in the land of Canaan; as if he had said that they were redeemed not to enjoy a mere transient joy, but that they might be mindful of their blessing throughout all ages.
God claims the firstborn by right of protection, as He claimed them when He spared them in Egypt. We must present what is dearest to us to Him first, and receive it back only by His mercy; the firstborn are the joy of families, yet they belong to God before they belong to us. By this dedication we show that we love Him better than we love ourselves.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 13:1-10
This day came ye out,.... Out of Egypt, on the fifteenth of Nisan, as the Targum of Jonathan: in the month Abib; which signifies an ear of corn, because in this month barley was in the ear, see Exo 9:31, the Syriac version renders it, "in the month of flowers"; when the flowers were rising up out of the earth, being spring time, and a...