Exodus 13:11–16

¹¹And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, ^12oThat thou shalt ^†set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord’s. ¹³And ^pevery firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a ^||lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children ^qshalt thou redeem. ^14rAnd it shall be when thy son asketh thee ^†in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, ^sBy strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of ^†bondage: ¹⁵And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that ^tthe Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but ^uall the firstborn of my children I redeem. ¹⁶And it shall be for ^xa token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt.