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Jerome's Latin Vulgate
secundum Matthæum 2:23
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Et factum est iterum Dominus sabbatis ambularet per sata, et discipuli ejus cœperunt progredi, et vellere spicas.
sicut scriptum est in lege Domini: "Omne masculinum adaperiens vulvam sanctum Domino vocabitur",
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Every: Exodus 13:2, Exodus 13:12-15, Exodus 22:29, Exodus 34:19, Numbers 3:13, Numbers 8:16, Numbers 8:17, Numbers 18:15
Reciprocal: Leviticus 12:4 - General Isaiah 11:1 - of Jesse Ezekiel 20:26 - all that Hebrews 7:14 - sprang
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As it is written in the law of the Lord,.... In Exodus 13:2
every male that openeth the womb, shall be called holy to the Lord; that is, devoted and consecrated to him, and so to be redeemed. The reason of this law was this, when God smote all the firstborn of Egypt, he saved the firstborn of Israel; and therefore claimed a right to them, and obliged their parents, excepting the Levites, to redeem them at the price of five shekels, which were about twelve shillings and six pence of our money, and which was given to the Levites: see Exodus 13:12 And this law our Lord came under as Mary s firstborn, and as one holy to the Lord; and such a sum of money was now paid for his redemption, who was the great Redeemer of his people: he being made under the law, and in all things subject to it, that he might redeem them from the bondage, curse, and condemnation of it. Now as the tribe of Levi was excepted from this law, it is a clear case, that Mary, though allied to Elisabeth, was not of the tribe of Levi, otherwise her firstborn would not have been subject to it y.
"An Israelite that comes from a priestess, or from a she Levite, is free, (i.e. from the redemption of the firstborn;) for the thing does not depend on the father, but on the mother, as it is said, that openeth the womb in Israel.''
y Maimon. Hilch. Biccurim c. 11. sect. 10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As it is written ... - Exodus 13:2.
