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Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal, shall be yours. Nevertheless, you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.
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Verse 15. Beast. The Rabbins restrain this to the ass alone, which they pretend was deemed the only unclean animal by the Israelites, in Egypt, when this law was established; and Moses indeed specifies it alone. Exodus 13:13. Abenezra.—But we cannot doubt but that camels, and all other unclean animals, were to be included, if the Hebrews kept them; ( Calmet.) and those which were rendered impure by some defect, were also to be redeemed. Menochius.
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