³⁶ He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.

³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

⁵¹ He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

⁸ He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast.

¹⁰ To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

²³ And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.

⁴ And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt:

⁵ And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.

¹² For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.

²⁹ And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.

³⁰ Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.

²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.