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27 you will say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites[a] in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.’” And the people knelt down and they worshiped. 28 And the Israelites[b] went, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did.

Death of Firstborn and Deliverance from Egypt

29 And[c] in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:27 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Exodus 12:28 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Exodus 12:29 Literally “and it was”