10th Plague of Egypt: ‘There Was Not a House Without the Dead’

10th Plague of Egypt: ‘There Was Not a House Without the Dead’

Charles Sprague Pearce, “Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt,” 1877, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D. OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Exodus’ most devastating plague exposes the price of resistance to God — and why the loss of the firstborn struck at the very heart of Egypt.