Exodus 12:12-14

"For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah. And the blood shall be to you a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever."

"I will pass through (Exodus 12:12) ... I will pass over (Exodus 12:13) ..." "The passing THROUGH was in judgment; the passing OVER was in mercy."[18]

"Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments ..." This has a limited application to what God had already done during the previous visitations of his wrath, but the thing in view here is the devastating series of judgments that fell upon that final and fatal night when the first-born both of man and of beast from the greatest to the lowest in all the land of Egypt died in agony at the midnight hour! How was this a judgment (or a plurality of judgments) against all the gods of Egypt? There were all kinds of animal "deities" in Egypt, and when these alleged "gods" were unable to protect either themselves or their offspring from death, the status of their "godhead" perished! The sacred bulls, frogs, cows, serpents, beetles, whatever, all died in sufficient numbers to remove the whole animal kingdom from any further consideration as being "gods." Even the pagan god Pharaoh, whose first-born was "heir apparent" to the throne and the darling not merely of the royal family but of all Egypt, was not spared. The judgment of God fell upon the palace as upon the hovel or the kennel.