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In recognition of this fact and also of God’s deliverance when He “passed over” their firstborn in Egypt, the Israelites were instructed to set apart to God every animal or child that “opens the womb [reḥem],” i.e., the firstborn. The animals were to be sacrificed and the human children were to be redeemed
The writers of Scripture confessed that God’s people are the objects of His care from their conception until their death
One psalmist confessed, “Thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb [beṭen] all together in my mother’s womb.
“Some persons were chosen for a special calling while they were yet in the womb. When Jeremiah was called to be a prophet, Yahweh told him: “Before I formed you in the womb [beṭen] I knew you, and before you were born [yāṣāʾ mēreḥem] I consecrated you”
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Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee