KJV ORIGINAL
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
And he struck down all the firstborn sons in Egypt; the strongest and best of their families in the land of Ham.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse describes how God killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt as the final plague that convinced Pharaoh to let the Israelites go free.
📚 Historical Context
This refers to the tenth and final plague God sent upon Egypt when Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites leave slavery. Ham was one of Noah's sons, and his descendants were believed to have settled in Egypt and other parts of Africa. The death of the firstborn was the catastrophic event that finally broke Pharaoh's resistance and led to the Exodus.
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