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FIRST-BORN, REDEMPTION OF
From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when the extensive plan of sacrificial worship was introduced, requiring a company of men to be exclusively devoted to this ministry, the primitive office of the first-born was superseded by that of the Levites (Num. 3:11), and it was ordained that the first-born of man and of unclean animals should henceforth be redeemed (18:15). The laws concerning this redemption of the first-born of man are recorded in Exo 13:12;22:29;34:20; Num. 3:45;8:17;18:16; Lev. 12:2, Lev. 12: 4. The first-born male of every clean animal was to be given up to the priest for sacrifice (Deut. 12:6; Exo 13:12;34:20; Num. 18:15). But the first-born of unclean animals was either to be redeemed or sold and the price given to the priest (Lev. 27:11, Lev. 27: 27). The first-born of an ass, if not redeemed, was to be put to death (Exo 13:13;34:20).
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