Exodus 12:30
Good News Translation
That night, the king, his officials, and all the other Egyptians were awakened. There was loud crying throughout Egypt, because there was not one home in which there was not a dead son.

New Revised Standard Version
Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians; and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

Contemporary English Version
That night the king, his officials, and everyone else in Egypt got up and started crying bitterly. In every Egyptian home, someone was dead.

New American Bible
Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was loud wailing throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.

and there was a great cry.

Exodus 11:6 And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as neither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter.

Proverbs 21:13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

Amos 5:17 And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

Matthew 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh. Go ye forth to meet him.

James 2:13 For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

Context
The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn
29And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle. 30And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.
Cross References
Exodus 11:6
And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as neither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter.

1 Samuel 5:12
For there was the fear of death in every city, and the hand of God was exceeding heavy. The men also that did not die, were afflicted with the emerods: and the cry of every city went up to heaven.

Psalm 78:50
He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.

Habakkuk 3:5
Death shall go before his face. And the devil shall go forth before his feet.

Exodus 12:29
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