“Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron during the night. Get out! he ordered. Leave my people-- and take the rest of the Israelites with you! Go and worship the LORD as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds, as you said, and be gone. Go, but bless me as you leave. All the Egyptians urged the people of Israel to get out of the land as quickly as possible, for they thought, We will all die!”
- Exodus 12:31-33 (NLT)