1. And now it’s time for Exodus 11:5a; 12:3a, 6b-7, 12a, 13
B. Cartoon Reader's Theater
Text & Context
This cartoon Bible story gives guests a context for today’s verse.
PRINT the Reader's Theater scripts provided on the following six Notes Pages.
CHOOSE readers for each part.
PRACTICE, practice, practice!
PRESENT with power, poise and pizzazz!
ASSIGNED LEADERS:
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2. The Passover SLIDE 1 Click to Continue Reader's Theater Script – BM09
Exodus 11:5a; 12:3a, 6b-7, 12a, 13
Moses: Let my people go!
Pharaoh: Ha! No way!
Moses: Yahweh!
Pharaoh: Nope!
Moses: Yup!
Pharaoh: Make me!
Moses: You’ll be soooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrry!
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3. Reader’s Theater - Slide 2 (Click to advance)
Narrator: Moses did as God commanded and ordered the mighty Pharaoh to set his slaves free, but the king did not obey. So God sent 10 terrible plagues against Egypt.
All: (Snorting like pigs) Oink. Snort! Oink! Oink!
Narrator: That’s plagues. Not pigs. Plagues.
All: Oh. Sorry.
Narrator: First, God made the rivers turn blood red.
All: Yuck!
Narrator: But Pharaoh would not let Israel go free.
Pharaoh: Fuggitaboutit!
Narrator: Next, frogs covered the land.
All: Reeeedeeep! Reeeedeeeep!
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4. Reader’s Theater - Slide 3 (Click to advance)
Narrator: Then biting gnats appeared. Then flies.
All: Bzzzzzz! (Slap!) Ouch!
Narrator: But still Pharaoh did not let Israel go.
Pharaoh: Fuggitaboutit!
Narrator: Next a plague killed the animals.
All: Moo! Baaa! (Screaming) Aaaaaaaaa!
Narrator: Then people were infected with oozing sores.
All: Gross!
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5. Reader’s Theater - Slide 4 (Click to advance)
Narrator: Then hail and fire fell from heaven.
All: (Screaming) Aaaaaaaaa!
Pharaoh: Is that all you’ve got? Fuggitaboutit!
Narrator: Then grasshoppers. Then darkness covered the land.
Pharaoh: I like the dark. Fuggitaboutit!
Narrator: Finally, God told Moses:
God (Three Voices Together): Tell the whole congregation of Israel they are to take a lamb.
Girls: Your lamb shall be without blemish.
Boys: You shall slaughter it at twilight.
Girls: Take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses.
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6. Reader’s Theater - Slide 5 (Click to advance)
Boys: For I will pass through the land.
Girls: I will strike down every firstborn.
Boys: The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live.
Girls: When I see the blood, I will pass over you.
Boys: And no plague shall destroy you.
Narrator: Thus says the Lord:
God (Three Voices Together): About midnight I will go out… every firstborn in the land shall die. There will be a loud cry such as has never been nor will ever be again.
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7. Reader’s Theater - Slide 6 (Click to advance)
Narrator: That night, just as God promised, the angel of death passed through the land of Egypt and killed all the first born sons of the land… from the poorest slave to the mighty Pharaoh’s own household.
All: And on that night…
Narrator: That Passover night…
All: God’s people won their freedom.
(Applause)
Permission to use this Reader's Theater is granted only to Faith Inkubators members with a valid membership.
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