²³ When the Lord goes through the land to strike^(A) down the Egyptians, he will see the blood^(B) on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over^(C) that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer^(D) to enter your houses and strike you down.

⁴ So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight^(A) I will go throughout Egypt.^{(B) 5} Every firstborn^(C) son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill,^(D) and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.