2 “Sanctify to me every male firstborn that opens each womb among the sons of Israel, among men and beasts. It is mine.”+

12 then you must devote everyone that opens the womb to Jehovah,*+ and every firstling, the young of a beast,+ which will come to be yours. The males belong to Jehovah.+

13 For every firstborn is mine.+ In the day that I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt+ I sanctified to myself every firstborn in Israel from man to beast.+ They should become mine. I am Jehovah.”

23 just as it is written in Jehovah’s* law: “Every male opening a womb must be called holy to Jehovah,”*+