4 So Moses said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘About midnight ^gI will go out in the midst of Egypt, 5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, ^hfrom the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. 6 ⁱThere 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 against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the Lord makes a ^jdistinction between Egypt and Israel.’ 8 And ^kall 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.

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

29 ^pAt midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, ^qfrom 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. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And ^rthere was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31 ^sThen he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, ^t“Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 ^uTake your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”