But I fear... the lintel will catch the tip of my blade.

I bring lamb's blood to mark the doorposts and lintel, that the Angel of Death may pass you by.

For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.

And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.

They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

I saw the LORD standing upon the altar and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake and cut them in the head, all of them and I will slay the last of them with the sword he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller planted and tended once by children's hands, in front yard plots now standing by wallsides in retired pastures, and giving place to new rising forests the last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family.