when the Israelites marked the doors of their houses with lambs' blood, so that the angel of death would pass over their households, sparing them from the plague.
ten plagues
blood, frogs, lice, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, killing of the firstborn
abraham
born and raised in Ur, Mespotamia as Abram. He and his father, Terah, both served other Gods.
