Meaningful Image
For my meaningful image, I chose the plague on the firstborn from Exodus 11-12.
Exodus 11-12 describes the plague on the firstborn which the lord casts upon the people of Egypt. It depicts the celebration of the Passover and the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. However, the means to this end are also depicted, those means being the death of every firstborn in Egypt “…from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill…” It is a religious image that portrays both the grace and the wrath of god.
This is a religious image not just because it is in the Bible, but because it represents the nature of God.
Exodus 11:5-7:
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
And there shall be a great cry throughout all......
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