THE NIGHT OF THE LAMB - The Old Testament ep. 18 - EN

The Lord tells Moses: “I will bring one more plague upon the Pharaoh and Egypt, afterwards he will let you go.” On the established night, according to God's will, each and every family kills a lamb and marks the doors and lintels of their homes with lamb blood. At midnight, God smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of the Pharaoh to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon and each of the first born of the cattle. There was a great cry in Egypt for there was not a house where one was not dead. In desperation, the Pharaoh summons Moses and Aaron and tells them: "Take your flocks and your herds and be gone!” After four hundred years, the people of Israel are free to set out for the Promised Land. Moses takes Joseph’s bones along with him, as per the dying wish of Jacob's favorite son.

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