Text: Deuteronomy 15:19-23
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 22:29-30
Subject: Consecration and redemption of firstborn
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Exodus 22:29-30 commands offering firstborn sons and livestock to the LORD, with animals remaining with their mothers seven days before presentation on the eighth day. Deuteronomy 15:19-23 expands the firstborn animal legislation significantly: firstborn animals must not be worked or shorn, they are eaten at the centralized sanctuary, and blemished firstborn may be eaten at home like ordinary meat but without blood consumption (Deut 15:23). This development addresses practical questions left open by the Exodus command—what happens to a lame or blind firstborn?—while connecting firstborn presentation to the centralization of worship at the chosen place.