{"id":12163,"date":"2020-10-15T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/death-of-the-firstborn-egyptians\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:00:31","slug":"death-of-the-firstborn-egyptians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/death-of-the-firstborn-egyptians\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of the Firstborn Egyptians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/108679857?color=00adef\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>written, directed, designed, animated, produced, etc. by Nina Paley  <a href=\"http:\/\/sedermasochism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/sedermasochism.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nmusic from &#8220;Spider Suite&#8221; by The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra <a href=\"http:\/\/dukeofukeandhisnoveltyorchestra.bandcamp.com\/album\/aprils-empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dukeofukeandhisnoveltyorchestra.bandcamp.com\/album\/aprils-empire<\/a><br \/>\nsound effects by Greg Sextro, <a href=\"http:\/\/eastwestaudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/eastwestaudio.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE HERE: <a href=\"http:\/\/questioncopyright.org\/sedermasochism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/questioncopyright.org\/sedermasochism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on Exodus 12:<br \/>\n21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.<br \/>\n22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.<br \/>\n23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.<br \/>\n24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.<br \/>\n25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.<br \/>\n26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?<br \/>\n27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord&#8217;s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.<br \/>\n28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.<br \/>\n29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.<br \/>\n30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.<\/p>\n<p>LYRICS by David King, aka Duke of Uke:<\/p>\n<p>DEATH: Falling stars you wished upon<br \/>\nare cinders now and now they&#8217;re gone<br \/>\ntheir residue festoons my fetid field.<br \/>\nUnfeeling husks of lovers past<br \/>\nthe shells are all that ever last<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve taken everything that they concealed.<br \/>\nWhoever told you life was fair?<br \/>\nLook around you, everywhere<br \/>\nthe cruelty of nature is displayed!<br \/>\nWhy the scorn?<br \/>\nWhy the surprise?<br \/>\nEverything that&#8217;s born must die<br \/>\nand it isn&#8217;t I who made the world that way.<\/p>\n<p>What wicked little twist of fate<br \/>\nplaced you here upon my plate<br \/>\nHere, where no one hears your cries?<br \/>\nWhere was your god to steer you through<br \/>\nPerhaps your god&#8217;s forsaken you<br \/>\nOtherwise why lead you here to die?<\/p>\n<p>BA (spirit of the dead): I, I know the way how<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll melt away now<br \/>\nI know the way.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m feeling bliss now<br \/>\nDissolved to mist how<br \/>\nstrangely I go<br \/>\naway<br \/>\nNow I finally know<\/p>\n<p>DEATH: It&#8217;s merely moments now,<br \/>\nmoments now until<br \/>\nyour feeble flesh bends to my will<br \/>\nand it will<br \/>\nso rest your weary head.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be no pain,<br \/>\nno pain at all<br \/>\nas everything you are dissolves<br \/>\nYour fate resolved<br \/>\nupon my silky thread.<\/p>\n<p>BA: I, I know the way how<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll melt away now<br \/>\nI know the way.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m feeling bliss now<br \/>\nDissolved to mist how<br \/>\nstrangely I go<br \/>\naway<br \/>\nNow I finally know<br \/>\n(repeat)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>written, directed, designed, animated, produced, etc. by Nina Paley http:\/\/sedermasochism.com\/ music from &#8220;Spider Suite&#8221; by The Duke of Uke and His Novelty Orchestra http:\/\/dukeofukeandhisnoveltyorchestra.bandcamp.com\/album\/aprils-empire sound effects by Greg Sextro, http:\/\/eastwestaudio.com\/ DONATE HERE: http:\/\/questioncopyright.org\/sedermasochism Based on Exodus 12: 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}