diff --git a/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/FirebirdDialect.java b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/FirebirdDialect.java
index 6e8899581f..6f47f288fa 100644
--- a/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/FirebirdDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/FirebirdDialect.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import org.hibernate.boot.model.FunctionContributions;
 import org.hibernate.boot.model.TypeContributions;
 import org.hibernate.boot.model.relational.SqlStringGenerationContext;
 import org.hibernate.community.dialect.identity.FirebirdIdentityColumnSupport;
-import org.hibernate.community.dialect.pagination.SkipFirstLimitHandler;
+import org.hibernate.community.dialect.pagination.FirstSkipLimitHandler;
 import org.hibernate.community.dialect.sequence.FirebirdSequenceSupport;
 import org.hibernate.community.dialect.sequence.InterbaseSequenceSupport;
 import org.hibernate.community.dialect.sequence.SequenceInformationExtractorFirebirdDatabaseImpl;
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ import org.hibernate.dialect.BooleanDecoder;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.DatabaseVersion;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.NationalizationSupport;
-import org.hibernate.dialect.SimpleDatabaseVersion;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.TimeZoneSupport;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.function.CommonFunctionFactory;
 import org.hibernate.dialect.identity.IdentityColumnSupport;
@@ -674,7 +673,7 @@ public class FirebirdDialect extends Dialect {
 	@Override
 	public LimitHandler getLimitHandler() {
 		return getVersion().isBefore( 3, 0 )
-				? SkipFirstLimitHandler.INSTANCE
+				? FirstSkipLimitHandler.INSTANCE
 				: OffsetFetchLimitHandler.INSTANCE;
 	}
 
diff --git a/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/pagination/FirstSkipLimitHandler.java b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/pagination/FirstSkipLimitHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9fd45c98d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/main/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/pagination/FirstSkipLimitHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.community.dialect.pagination;
+
+import org.hibernate.dialect.pagination.AbstractLimitHandler;
+import org.hibernate.dialect.pagination.LimitHandler;
+import org.hibernate.query.spi.Limit;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link LimitHandler} for Firebird 2.5 and older which supports the syntax
+ * {@code FIRST n SKIP m}.
+ */
+public class FirstSkipLimitHandler extends AbstractLimitHandler {
+
+	public static final FirstSkipLimitHandler INSTANCE = new FirstSkipLimitHandler();
+
+	@Override
+	public String processSql(String sql, Limit limit) {
+		boolean hasFirstRow = hasFirstRow( limit );
+		boolean hasMaxRows = hasMaxRows( limit );
+
+		if ( !hasFirstRow && !hasMaxRows ) {
+			return sql;
+		}
+
+		StringBuilder skipFirst = new StringBuilder();
+
+		if ( hasMaxRows ) {
+			skipFirst.append( " first ?" );
+		}
+		if ( hasFirstRow ) {
+			skipFirst.append( " skip ?" );
+		}
+
+		return insertAfterSelect( skipFirst.toString(), sql );
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public final boolean supportsLimit() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public boolean supportsOffset() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public boolean bindLimitParametersInReverseOrder() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public final boolean bindLimitParametersFirst() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/hibernate-community-dialects/src/test/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/FirebirdDialectTest.java b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/test/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/FirebirdDialectTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..54855d3b92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hibernate-community-dialects/src/test/java/org/hibernate/community/dialect/FirebirdDialectTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.community.dialect;
+
+import org.hibernate.dialect.DatabaseVersion;
+import org.hibernate.query.spi.Limit;
+
+import org.hibernate.testing.orm.junit.JiraKey;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.CsvSource;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+class FirebirdDialectTest {
+
+	@ParameterizedTest
+	@CsvSource(useHeadersInDisplayName = true, value = {
+			"major, minor, offset, limit, expectedSQL",
+			"2,     5,     0,      10,    select first ? * from tablename t where t.cat = 5",
+			"2,     5,     10,     0,     select skip ? * from tablename t where t.cat = 5",
+			"2,     5,     5,      10,    select first ? skip ? * from tablename t where t.cat = 5",
+			"3,     0,     0,      10,    select * from tablename t where t.cat = 5 fetch first ? rows only",
+			"3,     0,     10,     0,     select * from tablename t where t.cat = 5 offset ? rows",
+			"3,     0,     5,      10,    select * from tablename t where t.cat = 5 offset ? rows fetch next ? rows only"
+	})
+	@JiraKey( "HHH-18213" )
+	void insertOffsetLimitClause(int major, int minor, int offset, int limit, String expectedSql) {
+		String input = "select * from tablename t where t.cat = 5";
+		FirebirdDialect dialect = new FirebirdDialect( DatabaseVersion.make( major, minor ) );
+		String actual = dialect.getLimitHandler().processSql( input, new Limit( offset, limit ) );
+		assertEquals( expectedSql, actual );
+	}
+}