Verse 4
4. And Moses said Unto Pharaoh, not unto Israel . The speech of Exodus 10:25-26, interrupted by the parenthesis of Exodus 11:1-3, is here resumed .
About midnight It is probable that the midnight following this interview is here meant, and that this was the fourteenth day of the month Nisan, when the Passover was afterwards celebrated in Israel . From Exodus 12:3; Exodus 12:6, we see that the paschal lamb was to be selected on the tenth and killed on the fourteenth of that month . The lamb might have been selected when the plague of darkness commenced, and during those three days that the Israelites alone had light in their dwellings they might have waited in solemn anticipation for the final stroke of deliverance, which on the fifteenth day set them free.
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