The First Born Son

Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and smeared it on his legs. She said, you are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me. The land of egypt has been defiled by the blood of all those boy babies that were killed 80 years ago. When he acts to avenge the spilling of blood and the attacks that are made against his people, a blood atonement has to be made in order to divert the avenger of blood. And that's what happen at passover.

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