Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible. The sacrifices we offer the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians.
Have only the men go and worship the LORD, since that’s what you have been asking for.” Then Moses and Aaron were driven out of Pharaoh’s presence.And the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail.”So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of The desperate situation created by the locusts soon brought Pharaoh again to acknowledgment of Yahweh ( The progress of the seasons has been quite marked from the first plague, just before the rising of the waters, on through the year until now the khamsin period (choshekh, "darkness" from any cause ( No intimation is given of the exact character of the death inflicted on the firstborn (bekhor, "firstborn," "chief" or "best"; compare Thus, it appears that probably all the plagues were based upon natural phenomena which still exist in Egypt in the same order, and, when they do occur, find place somewhere during the course of one year. 7 Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. 27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. This has an important bearing upon the time of the composition of this narrative, and so upon the question of its author. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt;hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. 7:10-15) Seven days for the miracle of the waters to blood (Ex.
be there; to the end thou mayest field, and brake every tree of the field. And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. If you click on one of these links and make a 22 Verses About Plagues from 10 Books Genesis 12:17. Grace [be] with thee. 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt; 24 hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. Arrangement to Accomplish Divine Moral Purpose 21 But those who ignored the word of the LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field. and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. It is thus to be expected that the "wonders" of God in the land of Pharaoh should also be associated with natural events as well as manifest miraculous elements. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.