for frontlets between your eyes." Much of the language of the leshem yihud prayer before putting on tefillin is drawn from Ramban's commentary on . Haftarah The haftarah for the parashah is . Connection to the Parashah Both the parashah and the haftarah describe God's judgment against Egypt. The parashah reports that God told Moses to go (bo) to Pharaoh; the haftarah reports God's word that Nebuchadrezzar would come (la-vo) to Pharaoh. Both the parashah and the haftarah report a plague of locusts—literal in the parashah, figurative in the haftarah. Both the parashah and the haftarah report God's punishment of Egypt's gods. And both the parashah and the haftarah report God's ultimate deliverance of the Israelites from their captivity. References Further reading The parashah has parallels or is discussed in these sources: Biblical (God's destruction employing the flood); (leaving Egypt with wealth); (God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah). (command to kill sons); (hardening Pharaoh's heart); (hardening Pharaoh's heart); (hardening Pharaoh's heart); (hardening Pharaoh's heart); (hardening Pharaoh's heart); (firstborn); (Passover); (Passover). , 49–52 (hyssop); (Passover). (firstborn); (Passover); (firstborn); , 18 (hyssop); (Passover). (hardening of heart); (hardening of heart); (parting gifts for freed slaves); (firstborn); (Passover). (destruction of all but those with a red mark on their dwelling); (hardening of heart). (firstborn). (slaying those without the mark). (darkness). ("Purge me with hyssop"); (plagues); (plagues); (midnight). (midnight). Early nonrabbinic The Passover Letter. Elephantine, 419–418 BCE. In, e.g., The Context of Scripture, Volume III: Archival Documents from the Biblical World, pages 116–17. Edited by William W. Hallo. New York: Brill, 2002. Ezekiel the Tragedian. Exagōgē. Greece, 2nd century BCE. Translated by R.G. Robertson. In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: Volume 2: Expansions of the "Old Testament" and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms, and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic works. Edited by James H. Charlesworth, pages 814–17. New York: Anchor Bible, 1985. Jubilees chapter 49 Land of Israel, 2nd century BCE. In, e.g., The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis. Translated by Robert H. Charles. London: Black, 1902. In, e.g., The Book of Jubilees: Translation of Early Jewish and Palestinian Texts, pages 216–19. Lexington, Kentucky: Forgotten Books, 2007. (Passover). Wisdom of Solomon chapters 17–18. Alexandria, Egypt, 2nd–1st century BCE. 1 Corinthians Circa 53–54. (Passover). Romans 1st century. (hardening Pharaoh's heart). Hebrews (hyssop); (Passover). Late 1st century. Mark Circa 70 CE. (Passover). Matthew Circa 70–100 CE. (Passover). Josephus. The Wars of the Jews, 5:9:4.