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# Everything that opens the womb, all the firstborn
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These two phrases mean basically the same thing. Alternate translation: "Every firstborn male" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# Everything that opens the womb
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The idiom "opens the womb" means to be the first male that a mother gives birth to. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# the people must certainly redeem every firstborn son
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Instead of sacrificing their firstborn sons, people had to redeem, or pay, the priests for their sons.
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