Passover taken from my book The walls Came Tumbling Down.

“Jehovah said He would send a death angel to pass through the land of Egypt that very night and smite the firstborn males in the land, both man and beast. He executed judgment on the gods of Egypt. ‘I am the LORD,’ He said, and the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are, and when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

“Did you hear that? The blood of the lamb was a sign that death and judgment of the LORD will pass over all of the people who have gone under the blood. They would remain safe inside of the house. It happened as Jehovah said it would. All the children of Israel were in their houses and praying to the LORD for safety and deliverance. Some were fearful; some were hopeful, but all sought to find the face of the LORD. It wasn’t long until most of the children of Israel had fallen into a deep sleep after a day of back-breaking toil.

“At midnight, the LORD sent the death angel to pass through the entire land of Egypt and smite all of the firstborn males, from the firstborn of Pharaoh on his throne, to the firstborn of captives in the dungeon, and all of the cattle.

“Pharaoh woke in the middle of the night and found his firstborn son dead. He awakened his servants. They also found their sons were dead. The hue and cry that started in the palace, quickly spread throughout the land. The sound of great mourning filled all the land. No house was spared throughout Egypt, save those who had passed under the blood of the lamb. The weeping and wailing soon wakened all of the children of Israel.

Just then the wind outside the tent moaned shaking the tent flap. The tent creaked and the lamp hanging overhead began to sway causing the shadows in the corners of the tent to shift and move. The children at his feet looked around anxiously, as if the death angel was outside of the tent. “For there was not a house where there was not at least one dead.” The children shivered feeling the emotions of the story. The soft moaning of the wind seemed to resurrect the grief-filled cry of those who were visited by the death angel.

“It was then that the LORD God Jehovah broke the hardened heart of Pharaoh. He called for Moses and Aaron that very night and said, ‘Rise up and get you and yours out from among my people. Get yourselves and all of the children of Israel and go and serve your LORD. Take your flocks and herds and be gone from my sight, and bless us also lest we all be dead men.’ That was the first Passover,” Salmon said. “And that is how the LORD God Jehovah delivered our people from the years of captivity and freed us from the hands of the hardened task masters of Egypt.”