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One would think that after a long discussion of plagues, involving boils, gnats, and frogs, I would have a little bit thicker skin than I do. When I read Exodus 13:13, which talked about how Israelites were to break the neck of a donkey that’s not redeemed to God though, I’ll admit, I squirmed a […]

Let’s be honest: There’s not enough space on the entire internet to talk about everything related to the concept of the firstborn in the Bible. There’s the death of the firstborn, inheritance, Reuben and Judah, Jacob and Esau…and that’s just in the first few books. The New Testament especially talks about the Firstborn in two

If you ask any random person on the street about who usually celebrates the Passover feast, you’ll get a simple answer: Jews. They’re not wrong. The Passover is a strictly Jewish memorial, designed to commemorate a time in Jewish history, when God personally delivered the Jews out of slavery. That’s the story from top to

For most of my life, I’ve come to think of some periods in Biblical history in spans of 400. After all, when you look in Scripture, you see it all over the place: 400 years in the period of the Judges, 400 years from Solomon to the destruction of Jerusalem, and 400 years in the

It’s one thing for Moses to free the people from Egypt. It’s quite another to physically get them oriented enough to where they’re actually able to leave. After Pharaoh calls Moses and tells him to leave, to leave quickly, and to bless him on the way out the door, the Text gives us the scope

I have no idea what was going through Pharaoh’s mind on the night of the tenth plague. Pain, definitely. Guilt, probably. Anger, maybe. But repentance? Doubtful. Nevertheless, there’s a curious note in Exodus 12:32 of Pharaoh asking Moses to bless him as he leaves Egypt. There’s zero question that Pharaoh wants him and his people

In two verses, an entire generation of Egyptians are wiped out. For me, this is the hardest part of the Exodus story to read. It’s always been difficult, but seeing as how I’ve moved at a literal snail’s pace through Exodus to get to this point, it’s even harder. Why didn’t Pharaoh listen? Why didn’t

When it came time for Moses to communicate God’s instructions for the Passover to the people, he included some very clear procedures. First, take a lamb. Slaughter it. Sacrifice it. Second, grab some hyssop. Dip it in the blood of the lamb and spread the blood on the doorpost of your house so that the

Considering they happen so close in Scripture, it’s very easy to confuse the Passover and the Feast of the Unleavened Bread. They happen almost simultaneously, represent almost the exact same idea, and yet are very different. How different, exactly? The Passover symbolizes God literally “passing over” the houses of the Israelites during the tenth plague.

It’s hard to think of a more important feast for the Jews than the Passover. It’s similar in nature to the feast of Purim, which is eaten in remembrance of Esther’s deliverance of the Jews.  But the Passover is different. It’s not about keeping the Jews alive per se, it’s about the salvation of the