Exodus 12:29

New English Translation

It happened at midnight – the Lord attacked 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 prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

Cross References

Genesis 15:14

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

Job 34:20

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

Psalm 105:36

He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.

Psalm 135:8

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.

Psalm 136:10

to the one who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his loyal love endures,

Psalm 78:50

He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

Psalm 78:51

He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

Exodus 11:1

The Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you, he will drive you out completely from this place.

Exodus 12:12

I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.

Exodus 12:28

and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 13:15

When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’

Exodus 4:23

and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”

Exodus 9:6

And the Lord did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.

Isaiah 24:22

They will be imprisoned in a pit, locked up in a prison, and after staying there for a long time, they will be punished.

Isaiah 41:11

Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.

Isaiah 51:14

The one who suffers will soon be released; he will not die in prison, he will not go hungry.

Jeremiah 38:13

So they pulled Jeremiah up from the cistern with ropes. Jeremiah, however, still remained confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Jeremiah 38:6

So the officials took Jeremiah and put him in the cistern of Malkijah, one of the royal princes, that was in the courtyard of the guardhouse. There was no water in the cistern, only mud. So when they lowered Jeremiah into the cistern with ropes he sank in the mud.

Habakkuk 3:5

Plague goes before him; pestilence marches right behind him.

Zechariah 9:11

Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Numbers 3:13

because all the firstborn are mine. When I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They belong to me. I am the Lord.”

Numbers 33:4

Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them; the Lord also executed judgments on their gods.

Numbers 8:17

For all the firstborn males among the Israelites are mine, both humans and animals; when I destroyed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I set them apart for myself.

Hebrews 11:28

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

Hebrews 12:23

and congregation of the firstborn, who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous, who have been made perfect,