The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the
firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to
the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn
of my children I redeem.
EXO 13:16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for
frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought
us forth out of Egypt.
EXO 13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that
God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines,
although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people
repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
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