The Blood on The Doorposts and The Last Plague Exodus 12
THIS is what the Lord said the Hebrews should do to keep their firstborn safe when the dreadful Destroyer went over the land of Egypt: On the tenth day of that month each father was to choose a lamb or a young goat and keep it until the fourteenth day. Then at evening these were to be killed and the blood taken in a basin and, with a bunch of hyssop (this is a small plant), sprinkled over the top and side posts of the door of the house where each lamb was to be roasted and eaten that night. If any family were too small to eat a lamb, two families could have one together. They must not go out of the house where the blood was sprinkled until morning, for it was where God saw the blood that He would pass over without hurt to the oldest child.
The people did as God said. They ate the roasted meat with bitter herbs and bread without leaven (yeast), standing, with their shoes on and all dressed to leave in haste when Moses gave them the order to go.
At midnight the awful cries and weeping were heard, as God had said; there was not a house where there was not one dead; in the king’s palace, in the homes of his great men, and in the houses of the servants. Only in Goshen there was no death, for a little lamb died instead of them.
At last the proud king was willing the Hebrews should leave Egypt. He sent in great haste for Moses and said for them to take their flocks and herds and, “Be gone”, and his people too, were anxious for them to leave, and gave them presents of gold, silver; jewels, and clothing. So the Hebrews had this pay for their hard years of slavery, and you will hear later how they used many of the things.
Do you think these people ever forgot how they were made free from Egypt? No, it was a night to be always remembered, and God told them to keep a feast, called, the Passover, at this same time every year and to tell their children of all this.
ML 02/28/1937