Reading: 1 Peter 1:13-21
Text: Exodus 13:1&2, 11- 16
The Rite of Redemption

1 Peter 1:13-21 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

¹³ Therefore, ^[a]prepare your minds for action, ^[b]keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace ^[c]to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ As ^[d]obedient children, do not ^[e]be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, ¹⁵ but ^[f]like the Holy One who called you, ^[g]be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; ¹⁶ because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

¹⁷ If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; ¹⁸ knowing that you were not ^[h]redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, ¹⁹ but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. ²⁰ For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared ^[i]in these last times for the sake of you ²¹ who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Exodus 13:1-16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Consecration of the Firstborn

13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first ^[a]offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast; it belongs to Me.”

³ Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of ^[b]slavery; for by ^[c]a powerful hand the Lord brought you out from this place. And nothing leavened shall be eaten. ⁴ On this day in the month of Abib, you are about to go forth. ⁵ It shall be when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall ^[d]observe this rite in this month. ⁶ For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. ⁷ Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen ^[e]among you, nor shall any leaven be seen ^[f]among you in all your borders. ⁸ You shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ ⁹ And it shall ^[g]serve as a sign to you on your hand, and as a reminder ^[h]on your forehead, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt. ¹⁰ Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time from ^[i]year to year.

¹¹ “Now when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you, ¹² you shall ^[j]devote to the Lord the first ^[k]offspring of every womb, and ^[l]the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to the Lord. ¹³ But every first ^[m]offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem. ¹⁴ And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a ^[n]powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of ^[o]slavery. ¹⁵ It came about, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore, I sacrifice to the Lord the males, the first ^[p]offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ ¹⁶ So it shall ^[q]serve as a sign on your hand and as ^[r]phylacteries ^[s]on your forehead, for with a ^[t]powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”