Read Exodus 13.1-16. In 13.1-16: The Unleavened Bread and the firstborn: God provides instructions for life in Canaan. The death of Eygpt's firstborn (12.29) prompts the Lord to instruct Israel concerning the dedication or consecration of Israel's firstborn to God (vv. 1-2, 11-16). The instructions for Passover (12.1-28, 43-51) also prompt God to provide laws for celebration a closely related festival, the festival of Unleavened Bread (vv. 3-10). Both obligations will begin later, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites (vv. 5, 11), As such the laws function as a promise for the future. In verse 4: The the month of Abib, see comment on 12.2. inverse 5: This listing of peoples-the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites-is a traditional list of all the native inhabitants or the promised land of Canaan (Gen 15.19-21; Deut 7.1). In verse 9: Sign on your hand and reminder on your forehead indicate ornaments that came to be worn in worship in remembrance of the Exodus. In Jewish practice, they are called phylacteries. See v. 16 and Deut 6.8. In verse 13; The donkey is ritually unclean (Lev 11.3). Therefore, a ritually clean animal (a sheep must be offered to redeem or purchase back the firstborn donkey from God. If the owner does not redeem the donkey with a sheep, the owner must break its neck and kill it since it cannot be ritually slaughtered as a clean animal. The firstborn donkey belongs to God and cannot be used by humans without redeeming it. Every firstborn male child must be redeemed or purchased back from God, either with money (Num18.16; five shekels) or the substitution of a member of the priestly tribe of Levi ((Num 3.11-13) On the meaning of redeem see, comments on 6.6. In verse 16: see comment on v. 9. Comments or Questons..
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