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So Moses went to the king and he said, ‘The Lord God says this: “At about midnight, I will travel through the whole country of Egypt. I will cause all the firstborn sons in Egypt to die. The firstborn son of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, will die. The firstborn son of the female slave who makes flour, will die. Even the firstborn of the farm animals will die.[a] Everyone will be crying loudly in the whole country of Egypt. Nothing like that has ever happened before now, and it will never happen again.

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  1. 11:5 The firstborn son of every family in Egypt would die during that night. There would be no difference between rich families and poor families. The firstborn sons of important people and the sons of slaves would all die. Even the firstborn male children of their cows would die.