He struck down every firstborn in Egypt

we will tell the coming generation · Psalms 78

Story guide: Dark Egyptian thresholds hold families in mourning. Darkened Egyptian thresholds and mourning convey the plague and firstborn deaths without graphic bodies.

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49He sent against them his burning anger, fury, indignation, and distress, a dispatch of messengers of disaster.

50He leveled a path for his anger; he did not spare their lives from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

51He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.

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