Bible Verses About Firstborn: Of man and beast, reserved to Himself by God

that thou hast caused every one opening a womb to pass over to Jehovah, and every firstling--the increase of beasts which thou hast: the males are Jehovah's.

`And every firstling of an ass thou dost ransom with a lamb, and if thou dost not ransom it , then thou hast beheaded it: and every first-born of man among thy sons thou dost ransom.

`And it hath been, when thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What is this? that thou hast said unto him, By strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from a house of servants;

yea, it cometh to pass, when Pharaoh hath been pained to send us away, that Jehovah doth slay every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man even unto the first-born of beast; therefore I am sacrificing to Jehovah all opening a womb who are males, and every first-born of my sons I ransom;

and it hath been for a token on thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes, for by strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out of Egypt.'

`Thy fulness and thy liquids thou dost not delay; the first-born of thy sons thou dost give to Me;

so thou dost to thine ox, to thy sheep; seven days it is with its dam, on the eighth day thou dost give it to Me.

`All opening a womb are Mine, and every firstling of thy cattle born a male, ox or sheep;

and the firstling of an ass thou dost ransom with a lamb; and if thou dost not ransom, then thou hast beheaded it; every first-born of thy sons thou dost ransom, and they do not appear before Me empty.

for Mine is every first-born among the sons of Israel, among man and among beast; in the day of my smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself;

and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel:

`Every firstling that is born in thy herd and in thy flock--the male thou dost sanctify to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock;

before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, thou and thy house.

`And when there is in it a blemish, lame, or blind, any evil blemish, thou dost not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God;

within thy gates thou dost eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as the roe, and as the hart.

Only, its blood thou dost not eat; on the earth thou dost pour it as water.