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Exodus 12:7-7. The doorposts and lintel. Editorial illustration of the Passover doorway instruction. Front three-quarter close view of a humble mudbrick Hebrew house doorway in Egypt, two rough wooden vertical doorposts and one horizontal lintel clearly visible. Restrained dark reddish blood brushed on BOTH vertical posts and the upper lintel, three separate broad irregular brush patches following the wood, not a cross or symbolic design. Closed rough timber door within frame. A small plain earthenware basin rests beside the threshold, no person, body, animal or gore. Warm late-afternoon light on tactile wood and ochre plaster, hand-inked gouache graphic novel, carefully legible doorway construction, no lettering, modern fittings, supernatural light or deity. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering. — Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Exodus 12:7

The doorposts and lintel

A lamb for the household · Exodus 12

Story guide: Israel is told to put the lamb’s blood on the doorposts and lintel of each house.

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7And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

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