Today's Daily Bread

GOD DELIVERS HIS PEOPLE FROM EGYPT

Date : Sunday, March 01, 2026
Passage : Exodus 12:29~42
Keyverse : 29  
29
At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
30
Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
31
During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
32
Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me."
33
The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. "For otherwise," they said, "we will all die!"
34
So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
35
The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
36
The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
37
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
38
Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
39
With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
40
Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.
41
At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions left Egypt.
42
Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the LORD for the generations to come.
At the appointed time of midnight God struck down all the firstborn of Egypt. This tenth blow caused Pharaoh and all the Egyptians to surrender and release Israel. No longer was Israel enslaved to cruel masters; no longer would their children be slaughtered. This is the power of our God to deliver his people. His arm is not too short to save!

For generations Israelite slaves worked and died to make Egypt wealthy. Now, as they leave, they take all the wealth as well (35-36). God redeems their past suffering and provides for their future.

They had entered as a large family (1:5), they now leave as a nation of hundreds of thousands (37). This is how God fulfilled his promise to Abraham (40-41; Ge 13:13-14). God is always faithful to his promises. He keeps his own time, however, so we need to trust him.

The Exodus was so sudden they had to eat bread on the go, without letting it rise. Yet all that night God kept vigil over them. Our God is vigilant. Let’s keep vigil with him in our day as well. Prayer: Father, thank you for delivering me through the blood of Jesus from the tyranny of sin and the devil. Thank you for your vigilance. Help me trust you all the more and keep vigil with you in prayer.
One Word: God delivers us through Jesus