Two points are to be noticed:

1. The extent of the visitation: the whole land suffers in its firstborn, not merely for the guilt of the s…

All the firstborn ... shall die. —The Hebrew word translated firstborn is applied only to males; and thus the an…

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die
By the destroying angel inflicting a disease upon them, as Jose…

The death of all the first-born in Egypt at once: this plague had been the first threatened, but was the last executed. See how slow God is to wrat…