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God sent 10 plagues to Egypt as Pharaoh refused to let the Israelite people leave. Learn about Moses and how these natural disasters brought destruction to Egypt.
The fourth plague of Egypt was of creatures capable of harming people and livestock. Exodus states that the plagues only came against the Egyptians and did not affect the Hebrews. Pharaoh asked Moses to remove this plague and promised to grant the Israelites their freedom.
The plagues were ten disasters sent upon Egypt by God to convince Pharaoh to free the Israelite slaves from the bondage and oppression they had endured in Egypt for 400 years. When God sent Moses to deliver the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt, He promised to show His wonders as confirmation of Moses’ authority (Exodus 3:20).
9 The Lord had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.” 10 Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.
1. Plagues of Egypt: Waters Turned into Blood. God manifested His purpose to free His people from Egypt. Moses and his brother Aaron spoke to Pharaoh, but he, with a hardened heart, did not allow Israel to leave. Then all the water in Egypt - rivers, lakes, canals, and even water stored in containers - turned into blood.
In the famous ‘burning bush’ incident (analysed here), God appeared to Moses and commanded him to unite the tribes of Israel and lead them out of slavery in Egypt to freedom in Canaan. God warned Moses that once he has gathered together the children of Israel, Pharaoh would not let them go.
As the Passover story tells it, after Pharaoh refuses Moses’ entreaties to let the enslaved Israelites go free, God sends a series of ten plagues to pressure the Egyptian ruler.
When Moses was born, the Israelites were living under that oppression. God called him and his brother Aaron to demand the freedom of His people, and to lead them out. When Pharoh refused to release them, God began to pour out His judgment in the form of 10 plagues, each escalating in severity.
Gary Bates explained the significance of the ten plagues in Exodus and their representation of the gods of Egypt. Researcher and author Gary Bates explored Israel’s history during their time in Egypt.
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt.’ So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days” (Exodus 10:21-22).