Exodus 34:20

34:20 Now the firstling ¹  of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. ²  You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.

“No one will appear before me empty-handed. ³ 

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¹ tn Heb “and the one that opens [the womb of] the donkey.”

² sn See G. Brin, “The Firstling of Unclean Animals,” JQR 68 (1971): 1-15.

³ tn The form is the adverb “empty.”