We’ve all heard the story: God sends Moses to Egypt to
demand that Pharaoh let His people go. When Pharaoh refuses, Egypt is cursed
with horrible plagues: a blood-red Nile, frogs, lice, dangerous wild animals, diseased
livestock, boils (personally, that alone would do it for me), storms of hail
and fire, locusts and three days of darkness. Finally, Moses predicts that
every firstborn among the Egyptians would be slain by an avenging angel. I try
to picture what this would have been like. Without the firstborn, our noisy
Sunday dinners would have at least five fewer attendees – including me. To keep
this avenging angel from their doors, the Israelites were to mark the posts and lintels with lambs’ blood. Passover begins tonight at sundown and lasts up to eight
days. It marks the day the angel of death passed over God’s people, their deliverance
from bitter bondage, and the exodus from Egypt.
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