By putting the blood of the Passover lamb on the tops and sides of their doorframes, the Israelites were protected from the plague of death and finally freed from their years of slavery.

Then the Israelites were to put some of the blood on the two doorposts and the lintel of their houses.

Why was the blood sprinkled upon the door-posts and lintels?

Why was its blood sprinkled upon the doorposts and lintels?

Why was the blood sprinkled upon the doorposts and lintels?

Why did they put the blood on their doorposts and lintels?

Why was its blood sprinkled upon the door-posts and lintels?

Instead, they preferred to rely on the use of "post and lintel" techniques, involving vertical uprights (columns or posts) supporting horizontal beams (lintels).

Instead, they preferred to rely on the use of "post and lintel" techniques, involving vertical uprights columns or posts supporting horizontal beams lintels.

They had to take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of their house.

Greek architecture used simple post-and-lintel building techniques.

They had to take some blood and put it on the doorposts and the lintel of their houses.

Greek architecture used easy post-and-lintel building techniques.

However, where the blood was present on the posts and the lintels, the angel would pass over that home without taking life.

The façade is complete with a Renaissance portal, of Tuscan style, with festoons of leaves on the doorposts and lintels.