Connection
Every firstborn belongs to the Lord
The law of the exodus claimed every firstborn son for God, a memory of the night the firstborn of Egypt died. Joseph and Mary brought Jesus to the temple under that law.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
Direct quotation
New TestamentLuke 2:23Open this recordRead the earlier witness
“Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.” Read the later witness
(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”), Why FaithGraph draws this line
Luke 2:23 quotes Exodus 13:2.
Luke cites the law that every firstborn male is consecrated to the Lord as the reason for the presentation.
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