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As I already stated, your friends seem quite content to celebrate Passover with food, drinks, games, etc. to celebrate the deliverance of their ancestors.....but want to completely ignore, or neatly evade any questions regarding the rest of the story. I'm sorry, but it's the Bible, not chaney3, that describes the death and horror of ALL 10 plagues, not just the final one.
Just because they are Jewish, and I'm not, shouldn't stop a discussion of what they believe about the plagues, and most curiously, God's involvement in the entire matter with hardening Pharaoh's heart to ensure the pain and suffering would precede the deliverance.
And Duchess64, since you just quoted the book of Exodus in another forum, I would assume that maybe you are familiar with the story yourself, and thought you would comment?
The story of the Exodus, as told in the Bible is a tale of horrors. If a person believes that this actually happened, then only God knows exactly why it needed to unfold the way it did. And if the Jewish people find questions about it offensive, then maybe they need to look no further than the Bible (or Torah) to see the real offense.