Parshat Bo
The locusts don't work. Neither does the darkness. It is not until the tenth and final plague, the death of the first-born--"...from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the first-born of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; and all the first born of the cattle"--that Pharaoh finally gets the message. "'Up, depart from among my people,'" he thunders at Moses and Aaron, whom he summons in the middle of that deadly night. "'You, and the Israelites with yo