Exodus 12
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Exodus 12:29-36

29At midnight the Lord killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.

30Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the ⌞other⌟ Egyptians got up during the night. There was loud crying throughout Egypt because in every house someone had died.

31Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron during the night. He said, “You and the Israelites must leave my people at once. Go, worship the Lord as you asked.

32Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!”

33The Egyptians begged the people to leave the country quickly. They said, “Soon we’ll all be dead!”

34So the people picked up their bread dough before it had risen and carried it on their shoulders in bowls, wrapped up in their clothes.

35The Israelites did what Moses had told them and asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes.

36The Lord made the Egyptians generous to the people, and they gave them what they asked for. So the Israelites stripped Egypt of its wealth.

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