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Learning and Acting on the Lessons of the Exodus

Peter S. Knobel
In this portion the plagues come to a devastating end. The final plague is the death of the first males born of humans and animals: only the Israelites are spared. Moses said: "Thus says the Eternal: Toward midnight I will go forth among the Egyptians, and every [male] first-born in

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