Exodus 11:4-8

A Final Plague Threatened

4 So Moses said, "Thus says the Lord: w About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt, 5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is x behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. 6 y There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again. 7 But not a dog shall growl z against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord a makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8 And b all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Get out, you and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 12:29
    At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
    Job 34:20
    In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
    Amos 4:10
    I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Matthew 24:41
    Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.
    Luke 17:35
    There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 12:30
    And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
    Amos 5:16 - 17
    Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 8:22
    But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
    Exodus 9:4
    But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die."'
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 9:4
    But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die."
  6. Cross References
    Exodus 12:33
    The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, "We shall all be dead.
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