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Why did God require the Israelites to slaughter the Egyptian gods before the Egyptians' eyes?
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God required the Israelites to slaughter the Egyptian gods before the Egyptians' eyes so that God might teach the Israelites that their gods were really nothing at all. And thus God did so, for on the same night that God slew the Egyptian firstborn, the Israelites slaughtered their paschal lambs and ate them. When the Egyptians saw their firstborn slain and their gods slaughtered, they could do nothing, as reports, "While the Egyptians were burying them whom the Lord had sm