Tuesday, August 1, 2017

This (Night) Is....


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+------This (Night) Is....; The Thoughts Of Moses On That Fateful Night In Egypt 

The scent in the air – Egyptian
slaughter; carried by wind gusts
of harried angel wings
of a God who cares of his
peoples’ vindication. Our sheep
(and goats) bow heads
dutifully, exhaling below
war constellations. I raise the
blade to mine, I whisper “this
is the blood that saves us.”
…”Thank you.” I drive the
bread, without yeast, down
my throat. I take shelter
under covers, cover my wife’s
ears. The death angel nears:
(THIS IS THE PASSOVER).

-----Exodus 12:21-30
Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped. The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

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