Exodus from Egypt

The Jewish festival of Passover is eight days long. It celebrates the Jewish nation’s exodus from the land of ancient Egypt where they were enslaved.

God took out the Jewish people after punishing the ancient Egyptians with the ten plagues:

(1) All water turned into blood

(2) Frogs

(3) Lice    

(4) Wild beasts

(5) Pestilence of farm animals

(6) Boils

(7) Hailstones

(8) Locusts

(9) Darkness

(10) Death of the Firstborns

The Egyptians endured all the plagues until the last where King Pharoh, himself being a firstborn, urged all the Jews to leave immediately in order to save his own life. The Jews refused to leave at night-time and so the Exodus took place in the morning, in full daylight.