Exodus 13:5

_AND IT SHALL BE WHEN THE LORD SHALL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND OF THE CANAANITES, AND THE HITTITES, AND THE AMORITES, AND THE HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, WHICH HE SWARE UNTO THY FATHERS TO GIVE THEE, A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY, THAT THOU SHALT KEEP THIS SERVICE IN THIS MONTH._ When the Lord shall bring thee. The feast of unleavened bread х_ MATSOT_ (H4682)] in connection with the passover, which had been previously instituted, is here announced as a pemanent festival of the Israelites. It was, however, only a prospective observance: we read of only one celebration of the Passover during the protracted sojourn in the wilderness; but on their settlement in the promised land, the season was hallowed as a sacred anniversary, in conformity with the directions, the principal portions of which only are here repeated....

1-10 In remembrance of the destruction of the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of beast, and the deliverance of the Israelites out of bondage, the first-born males of the Israelites were set apart to the Lord. By this was set before them, that their lives were preserved through the ransom of the atonement, which in due time was to be made for sin. They were also to consider their lives, thus ransomed from death, as now to be consecrated to the service of God. The parents were not to look upon themselves as having any right in their first-born, till they solemnly presented them to God, and allowed his title to them. That which is, by special mercy, spared to us, should be applied to God's honour; at least, some grateful acknowledgment, in works of piety and charity, should be made. The remembrance of their coming out of Egypt must be kept up every year. The day of Christ's resurrecti...

Verse Exodus 13:5. _WHEN THE LORD SHALL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND_] Hence it is pretty evident that the Israelites were not obliged to celebrate the Passover, or keep the feast of unleavened bread, till they were brought into the promised land....

THE CANAANITES - Five nations only are named in this passage, whereas six are named in Exodus 3:8, and ten in the original promise to Abraham, Genesis 15:19. The first word “Canaanite” is generic, and includes all the Hamite races of Palestine....

EXPOSITION SANCTIFICATION OF THE FIRSTBORN. In connection with the deliverance from death of the Israelite first-born by the blood of the lamb, and still further to fix the remembrance of the historical facts in the mind of the nation, Moses was commissioned to declare all the firstborn of Israel for all future time, and all the firstborn of their domesticated animals "holy to the Lord." There was, perhaps, already in the minds of men a feeling that peculiar dignity attached to the first-born in each family; and this feeling was now strengthened by the assignment to them of a sacred character. God claimed them, and also the first-born of beasts, as His own. The clean beasts became his by sacrifice; but the unclean ones could not he similarly treated, and therefore had to be "redeemed" (Exodus 13:13) by the sac

AND IT SHALL BE WHEN THE LORD SHALL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND OF THE CANAANITES,.... Though the whole land was called the land of Canaan, yet there was one tribe or nation of them particularly so called as here, distinct from those that follow: AND THE HITTITES, AND THE AMORITES, AND THE HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES; there were seven nations in all, but two are here omitted, the Girgashites and Perizzites, but they are added in the Septuagint version, see Deuteronomy 7:1 WHICH HE SWORE UNTO THY FATHERS TO GIVE THEE; to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; so that they might be assured they would be brought into it, since they had both the word and oath of God for it; and which is the rather mentioned now for their encouragement, since they were at this time set forward in their journey thitherwards: A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY;...

CHAPTER 13:1-16 THE SANCTIFICATION OF THE FIRSTBORN _ 1. The separation commanded (Exodus 13:1)_ 2. Remember this day: the memorial (Exodus 13:3) 3. The separation of the firstborn (Exodus 13:11) The firstborn had been delivered in a special manner in Egypt and because Jehovah had delivered them they were to be sanctified unto Him. There is an inseparable connection between redemption and holiness. What the Lord has redeemed He claims for Himself. Here we have a definition of sanctification; it is separation unto God. But let us notice that salvation out of the house of bondage is the foundation of all. The same order is more fully revealed in the New Testament. In Romans 3-5:11 we read of our

LAWS ABOUT FIRSTBORN AND MAZZOTH: EXODUS 13:1 F. P. LAW OF FIRSTBORN. Here all are sacred to Yahweh; in J (Exodus 13:12 f., Exodus 34:19 f.) and E (Exodus 22:29 f.) all males, the ass to be redeemed with a lamb; in D male firstlings of herd and flock, to constitute a sacrificial feast for the owner and his family at the sanctuary; in P (Numbers 18:15, _cf._ Leviticus 27:26 f. P s) the firstborn of men and unclean beasts to be redeemed, of clean beasts to b

THE LORD. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, and Septuagint, add "thy God". CANAANITES. The Perizzites and Girgashites not included in this list. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ in this verse. (App-6.)...

IT SHALL BE WHEN THE LORD SHALL BRING THEE, &C. _THAT THOU SHALT KEEP THIS SERVICE IN THIS MONTH_— Many commentators observe, that the words of this verse prove that the Israelites were under no necessity to observe the passover, and consecrate their first-born, till they entered into the land of Canaan. REFLECTIONS.— 1. God demands of his people a return for his mercies in their first-born. He claims, from his preservation of them, a right in them. _Note;_ (1.) The life which God has rescued from imminent danger is doubly bound to be devoted to his service. (2.) They who truly love God will serve him with the best. 2. He bids them remember the day of their deliverance in the feast of unleavened bread, and instruct their children after them in the meaning of the ordinance; and very careful are they to this day to observe the letter of the precept in searching their houses for leaven: ma...