Death of the Egyptian first-born.  Wis.18.5-19

⁵When they had resolved to kill the babes of your holy ones,
and one child had been exposed and rescued,
in punishment you took away a multitude of their children;
and you destroyed them all together by a mighty flood.
⁶That night was made known beforehand to our fathers,
so that they might rejoice in sure knowledge of the oaths in which they trusted.
⁷The deliverance of the righteous and the destruction of their enemies were expected by your people.
⁸For by the same means by which you punished our enemies
you called us to yourself and glorifed us.
⁹For in secret the holy children of good men offered sacrifices,
and with one accord agreed to the divine law,
that the saints would share alike the same things,
both blessings and dangers;
and already they were singing the praises of the fathers.
¹⁰But the discordant cry of their enemies echoed back,
and their piteous lament for their children was spread abroad.
¹¹The slave was punished with the same penalty as the master,
and the common man suffered the same loss as the king;
¹²and they all together, by the one form of death, had corpses too many to count.
For the living were not sufficient even to bury them,
since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.
¹³For though they had disbelieved everything because of their magic arts,
yet, when their first-born were destroyed,
they acknowledged your people to be God's son.
¹⁴For while gentle silence enveloped all things,
and night in its swift course was now half gone,
¹⁵thy all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne,
into the midst of the land that was doomed,
a stern warrior ¹⁶carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command,
and stood and filled all things with death,
and touched heaven while standing on the earth.
¹⁷Then at once apparitions in dreadful dreams greatly troubled them,
and unexpected fears assailed them;
¹⁸and one here and another there,
hurled down half dead,
made known why they were dying;
¹⁹for the dreams which disturbed them forewarned them of this,
so that they might not perish without knowing why they suffered.

Aaron's saving prayer.  Wis.18.20-25

²⁰The experience of death touched also the righteous,
and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert,
but the wrath did not long continue.
²¹For a blameless man was quick to act as their champion;
he brought forward the shield of his ministry,
prayer and propitiation by incense;
he withstood the anger and put an end to the disaster,
showing that he was your servant.
²²He conquered the wrath not by strength of body,
and not by force of arms,
but by his word he subdued the punisher,
appealing to the oaths and covenants given to our fathers.
²³For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps,
he intervened and held back the wrath,
and cut off its way to the living.
²⁴For upon his long robe the whole world was depicted,
and the glories of the fathers were engraved on the four rows of stones,
and your majesty on the diadem upon his head.
²⁵To these the destroyer yielded, these he feared;
for merely to test the wrath was enough.