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Exodus 12 Summary
The Passover and the Exodus
God institutes the Passover: each household slaughters a spotless lamb and applies the blood to the doorframe. The angel of death passes over every blood-marked house. Pharaoh releases Israel after the death of the firstborn. Israel departs in haste, beginning 430 years of slavery ended in a single night.
Key themes
Key verses
Exodus 12:13
“And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 12:23
“For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.”
Exodus 12:40-41
“Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.”
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