Numbers 8:17
"For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself."
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- Exodus 13:2
"Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine."
Read in chapter → - Luke 2:23
"As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;"
Read in chapter → - Exodus 13:12
"That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD'S."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 135:8
"Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 78:51
"And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:"
Read in chapter → - Leviticus 27:26
"Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD'S firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S."
Read in chapter → - James 1:18
"Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 29:44
"And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office."
Read in chapter → - John 10:36
"Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?"
Read in chapter → - Exodus 12:29
"And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle."
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