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28 The Israelis did this. Moses and Aaron did just what the Lord had commanded.

The Death of the Firstborn in Egypt

29 And so at midnight the Lord struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30 Pharaoh got up during the night, he, all his officials,[a] and all the Egyptians, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, because there was not a house without someone dead in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:30 Or servants