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First-born animals

(Deut 15:19-23)

Since the firstborn of all animals belonged to God, people could not use them for their personal benefit (see notes on Exod 13:1-16).

Every firstborn clean animal was sacrificed to God and then eaten by the priests, unless it had some defect.

In that case it was used as ordinary meat (Deut 15:19-23; see also Num 18:17-18).