They were saved by the blood of the lamb!..................
Excellent.
Thank you so much for the ping.
This section on the blood on the doorposts is the BEST EVER.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus!
#2. No Jew would allow a slaughtered animal to lay in its own blood.
Still am..smile
Good Morning, Dan. :-)
Great compilation. I am fascinated by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, the great Dutch painter of Romanticism. In composition, facial expressions, colors, this painting is striking. The sadness, anger, teary eyes on the Pharaoh’ s face, his hand clenching a bunch of flowers and the body rigid against the pillar; the devastated mother crying over the dead body of the child; Aaron and Moses seen in the upper right of the painting, having come again to ask for the release of “my people”; the scene under the light of the candles while Moses and Aaron are standing in the light of the moon.... powerful composition.
Most Bible timelines puts Exodus 7-14 at one year (around 1446 BC).
The Fifth Plague of Exodus 9 destroys all of the Pharaoh's live stock including horses.
Seems that Exodus 7-14 should be over many years, even a generation to allow Pharaoh to re-establish his herd of horses for the pursuit of the Israelites in Exodus 14.
Shouldn’t Exodus 7-14 be longer than one year?
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I’m just bumping through.
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The translations that use the word "lintel" really score big here...
23. For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the LINTEL, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not let the destroyer come into your houses to strike you:
24. And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever:
... because of the intel inside.
Something similar happens with the entire Torah in the beginning and the end words:
IN The beginning... all IsraEL
Or in connecting the end to the beginning:
All IsraeL IN The beginning... all IsraEL
Because the letter chet [ח] is the first letter of chai, "life" [חי], it is known as the letter of life.
As a Torah analog for the "two side posts",
Here's the translation generated off the Hebrew Wikipedia page:
Trees of Life [עצי חיים]
Trees of life are a pair of wooden poles on which the scrolls of the Torah scroll are rolled and through which the book can be scrolled during the reading of the Torah.
Due to the decree of the sages, the Torah scroll should not be scrolled by hand as other books and scrolls are scrolled, and therefore the trees of life are required in order to scroll the book.
In an Ashkenazi Torah scroll, the trees of life end with two shaped handles made of wood and sometimes also with a combination of silver. In a Sephardic Torah the living trees end in two thick wooden discs.
I always appreciate these visual mnemonics because here's a mother's hug:
Trees of Life [עצי חיים] = 238 = Rachel [רחל], who is known as Rachel Imenu, the Mother of All Israel.
It's like the Hebrew-English word play that *is* a hug, a chibuk:
חיבוק
A hug is a "chai" book,
a book of life
the trees of life are required in order to scroll the book:
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