HAPPILY EVER AFTER...

We are leaving this country Zirah and I think this time its for real,Jared said. She couldn't believe what she just heard,she had fallen so much in love with this guy who was 3years younger than she was. She was from a royal family and even a different country but still she fell in love with this blacksmith's son. So what will become of me she said with a gloomy face, you expect me to do what??? Let you go? After all I've been through. Jared was confused,they had to leave the country,their ancestors had been there for 430 years and every 2years,a 'fake' seer always proposes to take them out of this country but now he had a feeling the man with the beautiful walking stick he met at the townsquare was for real.Then come with me,he said looking at her and noting the expression on her face,her face was as blank as a dummy's exam sheet,he couldn't tell what she was thinking. I'll come with you Jared,I can't live here without you but first,you have to tell me where we are going,is it the land where those giants in the pictures reside or the land flowing with milk and honey that we have always dreamt about.. The land of milk and honey Zirah..and I promise you'll never suffer for a day. She didn't hear the last of it,she raced home,packed her garments and the beautiful iron bear he made for her the last general sabbath. Without saying a word,she raced to Jared's house. she met his mother placing a red mark on their doorpost,she tried to help her hold the stool on which she climbed but she couldn't,the boil in her armpit wouldn't let her. She remembered how the boil came to be, Jared told her to come to their place the day before boil struck their land but she wanted one of her mother's maid to make her hair so she didn't go and that night when the first boil appeared at the back of her head,she felt it was beulah's hand that was too tight when she was making her hair so she applied shear butter by the next morning when she got up and wanted to cleanse her face,she couldn't believe what she saw,her whole face was covered with boils.As she ran to the midwife's place she saw everyone with boils, but after her father did what the man with the beautiful walking stick said the boils disappeared,except this one in her armpit. Her mother constantly teased her that she didn't have her bath well because her own boil was as a result of dirtiness. She just kept staring at Jared's mother has she kept marking all the doorposts in the compound, everybody already accepted her and so she wasn't questioned when she headed for Jared's room,she sat there and kept waiting for him to arrive. He came back a little too late and Zirah questioned him about what she saw his mother doing earlier that day, he explained to her that the man with the beautiful walking stick told all of them to kill a day old lamb and mark their doorpost with it,he called it 'passover'. She said ok but she suddenly remembered it was that same man with the beautiful walking stick that told her father what solved the whole boil and other diseases problem. Jared told her they were leaving the next day and she didn't complain but her mind was disturbed. Was something going to happen if the houses in Egypt were not marked?? She had only 1 sister and she loved cheith so much. That night when everybody was asleep,she tiptoed to Jared's mother's closet and poured a little of the blood. She ran to their house and marked her mother's doorpost,cheith slept there so they'd both be safe.She went to her father's room and marked his doorpost with the blood too,she felt ok with that. The eldest wife suddenly found her at her door as she was about to mark her room's door and she was angry,she started shouting at her calling her a witch and chased her away,nobody in the house woke up and so she went back to Jared's house.And that night at midnight,the Lord struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt,fron the firstborn son of pharaoh,who sat on hsi throne,to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon.Even the livestock were killed(Exodus 12 vs29).The next morning,the whole land of Egypt woke up wailing,there were dead people in each house and they were all firstborns. Zokotah the firstborn of Pharaoh was dead but surprisingly,pharaoh wasn't dead even though he was also the firstborn of his own father. Zirah on hearing this became scared,so her father would have died if she hadn't marked his doorpost,she felt relieved that she saved her father but felt sad that Zokotah was dead. She explained to Jared what she did and he wasn't mad at her. Her father already told them to leave the land but when he found out Zirah was with Jared,he was vexed,he couldn't let him take away his daughter without paying her bride price so he sent for him and his family .And so on that day Zirah got married to Jared in Goshen and she became an Israelite by marriage,this qualified her to join them in moving away from Egypt into the land flowing with milk and honey ermm..and they lived happily ever after.... (Death of Egypt's firstborn and the Exodus from Egypt as retold by me) happy sunday everyone and happy belated birthday to Ezinne. The peace of almighty God be with you all.