Neville Goddard on Numbers 18:15-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Numbers 18 in context

Scripture Focus

15Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

16And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

Numbers 18:15-16

Biblical Context

Numbers 18:15-16 speaks of redeeming the firstborn—human and animal—by a price, signaling that what is born within must be consecrated and redeemed through a higher awareness. It points to inner devotion that sanctifies the inner life.

Neville's Inner Vision

You are the I AM, and the firstborn within you is your awakened consciousness, the living law by which all experience is measured. The text's 'redemption' is not an external transaction but a revision of your inner state. The firstborn must be redeemed by the price of five shekels—the consent, attention, and faith you place on your own inner reality. When you bring the 'unclean' passions into the sanctuary of your imagination, you do not cast them away; you convert them into energy disciplined under the sovereignty of your awareness. The act of redeeming from a month old marks the continual renewal of your inner covenant: you decide which part of you serves the divine order, and you pay with steady imaginative assumption. In this way, true worship arises as a state of consciousness that proclaims I am the Lord of my inner world, and the firstborn is mine to sanctify.

Practice This Now

Assume a new inner covenant now: declare silently, 'I AM the Lord of my inner world.' Visualize paying five symbolic shekels of awareness, then feel the firstborn—your highest self—redeemed and reigning in peaceful, holy conduct.