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Everything that opens the womb, all the firstborn

These two phrases mean basically the same thing. Alternate translation: "Every firstborn male" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)

Everything that opens the womb

The idiom "opens the womb" means to be the first male that a mother gives birth to. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)

the people must certainly buy back every firstborn son

Instead of sacrificing their firstborn sons, people had to pay the priests for their sons.