Bible Verses

Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron at night, saying: “Get up and go from among my people, you and the people of Israel. Go and worship the Lord as you have said!

Pharaoh, his officials, and all the Egyptians got up in the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was no house without a death.

Death of All the Egyptians’ Firstborn and the Departure of Israel It happened that in the middle of the night, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, heir to the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon and the firstborn of all the animals.

They went away and did what the Lord had ordered Moses and Aaron.

You will tell them: It is the sacrifice of the Passover for the Lord who passed over the houses of the Israelites when he struck Egypt and spared our houses.” When the people heard this, they bowed down and worshiped.

And when your children ask you: ‘What does this ceremony mean?’

you will carry out this ceremony when you enter the land that the Lord will give you, as he promised.

You and your descendants shall observe these instructions as an everlasting ordinance;

 Because the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and the doorposts, he will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and kill.

Take a twig of hyssop dipped in its blood and sprinkle the blood on the doorposts and the top of the doorframe: from then on, no one will go out of the door of the house before morning.