Why is this night different from all other nights?

This night is to honor the Living G-D of Israel, for what He did for me in the land of Egypt when He freed me. We are told these three times to tell what the LORD has done for us.

Exodus 10:1) Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them, and that you may recount in the hearing of your sons and that of your sons’ sons how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I displayed My signs among them –in order that you may know that I am the LORD."

Exodus 12:26) "And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this rite?’ 27) You shall say ‘It is the Passover Sacrifice to the LORD, because He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but saved our houses’."

Exodus 13:8: And you shall explain to your son on that day, "it is because of what the LORD did for me when I went free from Egypt".

Thus the story begins: When Abram was very old in years, he told the LORD that because he had no Heir yet, his man server would then be my heir. The LORD knowing that Abram needed reassurances that he would have a heir, told Abram to create the common ritual for sealing a covenant(split animals). This Abram did and then he waited, at about evening time a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great dread descended upon him. Genesis 15:13) And He said to Abram, " Know well that your children shall live in a land not theirs, and they shall be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years; but I will execute judgment on the nation they shall serve, and in the end they shall go free with great wealth." Abram went to sleep and the LORD completed the ritual HIMSELF.

Abram’s, now Abraham, grandson Joseph was sold into slavery in Egypt when Joseph was 17 years of age. A few years later G-D uses Joseph to save All this people and his father’s family.
As reported by Joseph to his brothers that sold him into slavery. Genesis 50:18) Now it is a 413 years later. That which the LORD told Abram has happened, and it now time for the family to be redeemed. And so, a man named Moses sees a burning bush while tending sheep for his father-in-law, Jethro High Priest of Midian. From this bush G-D tells Moses that he is to go and be the mouth piece of the LORD to Pharaoh. Each step of the events that transpire are explained by G-D to Moses, and the responses of Pharaoh.

Moses to Pharaoh upon returning to and Egypt is struck by 9 plagues, there are Blood, Frogs, Lice, Flies, Death of Livestock, Boils, Hail that burns as Fire, Locust, Darkness. Still Pharaoh had a hard heart and would not let the people go.

One last plague is sent to Egypt. This one requires preparation by the people before the event. ADONAI sets this as the First month of months, a command, on the First Day of the Month and continues to give the process for handling the night of PassOver(Pesach). The Hebrews were required to eat a whole lamb in one night for each house hold and to mark the Door Post and Mantels with Blood from the Lamb, in this way the Angel that was coming would not touch my house, or PASS OVER it. When G-D gave the instructions to Moses and therefore to the Hebrews, He said that we are to keep this feast and tell this story throughout our generations.

After the tenth plague, the Death of the First Born, Pharaoh order the Hebrews to leave NOW! There were very, very many Hebrews to get underway. Because of this plague G-D has declared that the first born on the Hebrews, children and animals belong to G-D. It is stated in Exodus 12:40) "The length of time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years, at the end of the Four Hundred Thirtieth year, to the very day, all the ranks of the Lord departed from the land of Egypt.

On the First day of the Year, Moses instructs the Hebrews, in the preparation for the Feast of Passover. Also, the people are instructed to borrow from their Egyptian neighbors, silver, gold and other valuables. The LORD sets the Egyptian hearts to give their valuables to the Hebrews. Thus when Pharaoh ejects the Hebrews from Egypt, the LORD has fulfilled the statement to Abram. ((Genesis 15:13) And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; (Genesis 15:14) And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.)

This is how we were freed from Egypt, but the story continues.

Shalom for now,
Yaakov