Now, culturally, you have to understand something here. The firstborn is everything. The Israelite culture wasn’t about you as an individual, you didn’t set off on your own and make a name for yourself, it was all about the surviving and thriving of the family. And the first born in the family was the future of the family. As a father you were building your business, your farm, your life, to hand down to your firstborn and the Lord is saying “set aside” consecrate to me all the firstborn. They are mine.
As A.W. Pink puts it, a redeemed people become the property of the redeemer.
It’s pretty simple really, I have bought you, now you are mine.

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