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When your children ask you, âWhat does this service mean to you?â
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you are to reply, âIt is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.ââ Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
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And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
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Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
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During the night Pharaoh got upâhe and all his officials and all the Egyptiansâand there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.