Exodus 12:28-30

Contemporary English Version

²⁸ Then they left and did what Moses and Aaron had told them to do.

Death for the First-Born Sons

^29 (A) At midnight the Lord killed the first-born son of every Egyptian family, from the son of the king^[a] to the son of every prisoner in jail. He also killed the first-born male of every animal that belonged to the Egyptians.

³⁰ That night the king, his officials, and everyone else in Egypt got up and started crying bitterly. In every Egyptian home, someone was dead.