The most dangerous sentence in the Passover story is the one where Israel was told to tie a lamb to a post and wait. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus 12:6 turns those four days of waiting into an act of defiance. The lamb was bound and reserved until the fourteenth of Nisan "that you may not know the fear of the Mizraee when they see it."
The sheep was sacred to Egyptian religion. To tether one in plain view, in preparation for slaughter, was to publicly reject the gods of the masters. The rabbis read this as a spiritual exercise: before the physical Exodus could take place, Israel had to liberate itself internally. You cannot walk out of Egypt if Egypt still lives inside your head.
The Targum adds that Israel did this for four days with no retaliation from their neighbors — a quiet miracle in itself. The Egyptians saw the bound lambs and did nothing. Perhaps they were already too frightened after the plagues. Perhaps the angels of the Lord kept them still. Either way, the offering was slaughtered "between the suns" — the rabbinic twilight window between midday and sunset on the fourteenth — by the entire assembled congregation of Israel at once.
That synchronicity matters. Pesach is not a private act of piety. It is a choreographed sacrifice performed by a whole nation at the same hour, publicly rejecting the theology of their oppressors.
Takeaway: Freedom had to be rehearsed before it could be claimed. Israel tied up the lambs of Egypt's gods and watched nothing happen.