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The Christian Story of Passover from Exodus

I presume that if you are a Christian, you probably don’t know the story. But you should probably know what the Christian scripture says about this monumental day in your religion. So, I’m paraphrasing from the book of Exodus in the Old Testament. I have not exaggerated this story one bit. The following is the story of Passover from the Bible: You see, the Egyptians had enslaved many of the Israelites in Egypt and this was cause for concern for Moses and his brother, Aaron. The Lord God gave god-like powers to Moses and told Aaron to act as Moses’ prophet. God told the brothers that they were to go to the Egyptian Pharaoh and ask for the release of the Israelites, and God said that he would harden the Pharaoh’s heart so that he would not listen to Moses and Aaron. When the brothers confronted the Pharaoh and were asked to perform a miracle to prove their divinity, Aaron threw his staff down on the ground and it turned into a snake. But, what’s this? The Egyptians had magical