The Tenth Plague

The instructions of the Lord, bearing on the paschal lamb, have been obeyed. The blood of the lamb has been struck on the two side posts and on the upper door posts of the houses. The children of Israel are thus secured against the avenging justice of God. And this justice now strikes. It is midnight and the Lord smites all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of...