Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Kept, х pepoieeken (G4160)] - 'hath kept;' the Passover being, in Paul's day, still observed. His faith here was in the invisible God's promise that the destroying angel should pass over, and not touch the inmates of the blood-sprinkled houses (Exodus 12:23).
The first-born, х ta (G3588) proototoka (G4416): neuter] - both of man and beast.