The Lord wanted to make sure the people of Israel kept the
Passover in perpetual memory; so He reminded them of and repeated his
instructions over and over again. So the
order of the firstling was given; everything that comes out of the womb they
were told belonged to God. In addition,
every firstling of an ass was to be redeemed with a lamb; the significance of
this being the colt of an ass could not be eaten; so it was to be exchanged for
a lamb. And if it could not be redeemed,
if for example, the owner could not obtain a lamb for its redemption, its neck
was to be broken.
In addition
the order went forth that all the first-born children were also to be redeemed;
and the children were to be told, when they enquired about the origin of the practice,
they were to be told; “by strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt , from the
house of bondage. For so it was that
when Pharaoh refused to let us go, that the Lord slew all the first-born in the
land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beasts;
therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that opens the womb, being male; but all
the firs-born of my children I redeem.
And it shall be a token upon thy hand and for frontlets between thine
eyes; for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt .
Now as God
led the children of Israel
out of Egypt , he led them
not through the shorter route, which was via the land of the Philistines, but
through the way of the wilderness through the Red Sea .
One
important thing Moses did not neglect to take with him out of Egypt , was the remains of Joseph; for Joseph
before he died had caused his brethren to solemnly swear that when God would
have visited them, they would take his bones with them out of the land of Egypt
As
the children of 
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