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If a non-kosher fish swallowed a kosher fish, the kosher fish is still permitted to be eaten, and if a kosher fish swallowed a non-kosher fish, the non-kosher is prohibited to be eaten - provided that the fish inside was not spawned.
We continue our exploration of the firstborn with a n analysis of Exodus 13:11–16 which is much more than a law concerning firstborn animals and sons. From a historical-critical perspective, it is a particularly revealing example of the way the Torah takes an older cultic institution and reinterprets it through the memory of the Exodus. The final text fuses ritual law, historical narrative, family catechesis, and embodied memory. Precisely because these elements do not fit together perfectly, the passage also preserves traces of its compositional history.