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Locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn – the three final and most severe punishments of the ten,

G-d sent to Egypt to show that there is only One Lord of the world.

The transformation of a tribe of slaves into a free people could not take place,

without the opposition of monotheism to the Egyptian sacred idols.

G-d gives the Jewish people the first commandment to establish their own calendar,

The months of the new moon, in which they must henceforth.

To sacrifice a lamb for Passover and to stain their doorposts with blood,

That G-d may pass over them, before the Egyptian firstborns are punished.

The death of the firstborn breaks Pharaoh’s resistance, and he drives the Jews out,

The children of Israel are in a hurry, and do not even have time to wait for the dough to rise.

They take with them unleavened bread, the gold of the Egyptians and their own honestly earned money,

In remembrance of the Exodus and their dedication to G-d, they receive the commandment to put on tefillin.