出埃及记 13:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

這要在你的手上作記號，在你的額上作頭帶；因為耶和華曾用大能的手把我們從埃及領出來。’”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
这 要 在 你 手 上 作 记 号 ， 在 你 额 上 作 经 文 ， 因 为 耶 和 华 用 大 能 的 手 将 我 们 从 埃 及 领 出 来 。

Contextual Overview

¹¹ "And when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanites, the land he promised to give you and your ancestors, ¹² you must give him every firstborn male. Also every firstborn male animal must be given to the Lord . ¹³ Buy back every firstborn donkey by offering a lamb. But if you don't want to buy the donkey back, then break its neck. You must buy back from the Lord every firstborn of your sons. ¹⁴ "From now on when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?' you will answer, ‘With his great power, the Lord brought us out from Egypt, the land where we were slaves. ¹⁵ The king of Egypt was stubborn and refused to let us leave. But the Lord killed every firstborn male in Egypt, both human and animal. That is why I sacrifice every firstborn male animal to the Lord , and that is why I buy back each of my firstborn sons from the Lord .' ¹⁶ This feast is like a mark on your hand and a reminder on your forehead to help you remember that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his great power."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a token: Exodus 13:9, Exodus 12:13

frontlets: Deuteronomy 6:7-9, Deuteronomy 11:18, Matthew 23:5

for by: Exodus 13:9, Exodus 13:14, Deuteronomy 26:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:12 - General Exodus 14:8 - with an high hand Deuteronomy 6:8 - General Proverbs 6:21 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 13:1
So Abram, his wife, and Lot left Egypt, taking everything they owned, and traveled to southern Canaan.

Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold.

Genesis 13:3
He left southern Canaan and went back to Bethel where he had camped before, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13:14
After Lot left, the Lord said to Abram, "Look all around you—to the north and south and east and west.

Genesis 13:16
I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord .

Genesis 15:5
Then God led Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count."

Genesis 17:6
I will give you many descendants. New nations will be born from you, and kings will come from you.

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her and give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will come from her."

Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be for a token upon thine head, and for frontlets between thine eyes,.... These laws observed concerning the setting apart the firstlings of their beasts, the redemption of the firstborn of unclean ones, and of the firstborn of men, will bring the reason of it, the destruction of the firstborn of Egypt, and the preservation of the firstborn of Israel, as fresh to remembrance as any token upon the hand, put there to bring things to mind; and it will be as easily and as clearly discerned as anything upon a man's forehead may be seen by another:

for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt: which is often mentioned, that it might be observed; it being the signs and wonders which the omnipotent hand of God wrought, especially the last, which worked upon Pharaoh, to let the people of Israel go; and their posterity, in all succeeding ages, would speak of this affair as if personally concerned in it, they being then in the loins of their ancestors, and represented by them, as well as they reaped and enjoyed all the benefits of that wonderful deliverance, the possession of the land of Canaan, and the blessings of it, as well as many other privileges both of a civil and religious kind. And so Maimonides k says,

"in every age a man is obliged to consider himself as if he in himself now went out of the bondage of Egypt, as it is said, "and he brought us forth from thence", &c.''

k Hilchot Chametz Umetzah, c. 7. sect. 6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 13:16. It shall be for a token, &c. — Exodus 13:9; Exodus 13:9.