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Moses and the Passover

The first passover meal.
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The Lord said to Moses, ‘I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go.’ <br/>So Moses told Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: “About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.”’ – Slide 1
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‘But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal. Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ <br/>Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let the Israelites leave. Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh. – Slide 2
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The Lord told Moses and Aaron to instruct the Jews: ‘On the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.’ – Slide 3
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‘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.’ <br/>Then they are to take some of the blood of the Passover lamb in a basin… – Slide 4
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… and dip hyssop into the blood. – Slide 5
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‘Then the blood should be put on the top and on both sides of the doorframes where the lambs are to be eaten.’ – Slide 6
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‘The blood will be a sign on the houses where you are. When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and He will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.’ – Slide 7
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‘That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.’ – Slide 8
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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. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals. I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.’ – Slide 9
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At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well – Slide 10
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Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. – Slide 11
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During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.’ – Slide 12
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The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. ‘For otherwise,’ they said, ‘we will all die!’ So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The Lord had made the Egyptians favourably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians. – Slide 13
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