Keluaran 22:29

22:29 “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. ¹  You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

Keluaran 34:20

34:20 Now the firstling ²  of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. ³  You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.

“No one will appear before me empty-handed. ⁴ 

[22:29]  ¹ tn The expressions are unusual. U. Cassuto renders them: “from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses” (Exodus, 294). He adds the Hittite parallel material to show that the people were to bring the offerings on time and not let them overlap, because the firstfruits had to be eaten first by the priest.

[34:20]  ² tn Heb “and the one that opens [the womb of] the donkey.”

[34:20]  ³ sn See G. Brin, “The Firstling of Unclean Animals,” JQR 68 (1971): 1-15.

[34:20]  ⁴ tn The form is the adverb “empty.”