Don't Throw away the Baby with the Bath Water
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Don't Throw away the Baby with the Bath Water
Don't Throw away the Baby with the Bath Water
After you have entered the country promised to you by the Lord, you and your children must continue to celebrate Passover each year.
Your children will ask you, “What are we celebrating?”
And you will answer, “The Passover animal is killed to honor the Lord. We do these things because on that night long ago the Lord passed over the homes of our people in Egypt. He killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians, but he saved our children from death.” After Moses finished speaking, the people of Israel knelt down and worshiped the Lord.
Then they left and did what Moses and Aaron had told them to do.
"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" is an idiomatic expression for an avoidable error in which something good is eliminated when trying to get rid of something bad, or in other words, rejecting the favorable along with the unfavorable.
A slightly different explanation suggests this flexible catchphrase has to do with discarding the essential while retaining the superfluous because of excessive zeal.
“Knowing the Past Opens the Door to the Future”
“Knowing the Past Opens the Door to the Future”
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