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In the Book of Exodus, the Plagues of Egypt (Hebrew: מכות מצרים ) are ten disasters that Yahweh inflicts on the Egyptians to convince the Pharaoh to emancipate the enslaved Israelites, each of them confronting the Pharaoh and one of his Egyptian gods; [1] they serve as "signs and marvels" given by Yahweh in response to the Pharaoh's ...
The prophecy parallels one of the Ten Plagues against Egypt in the Book of Exodus (Ex. 10:21–29). [3] The Apocalypse of John also mentions a plague of unnatural darkness as an effect of the fifth vial ( Revelation 16:10 : "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness").
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867). The story of the Exodus is told in the first half of Exodus, with the remainder recounting the 1st year in the wilderness, and followed by a narrative of 39 more years in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the first five books of the Bible (also called the Torah or Pentateuch). [10]
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Pharaoh is the leader of Egypt who despises Moses for his efforts to set the Israelites free. He endures the ten plagues before allowing Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. He later follows them in an attempt to recapture the Israelites and defeat Moses, but he does not succeed. [3]
Moses returned to carry out God's command, but God caused the Pharaoh to refuse, and only after God had subjected Egypt to ten plagues did the Pharaoh relent. Moses led the Israelites to the border of Egypt, but there God hardened the Pharaoh's heart once more, so that he could destroy the Pharaoh and his army at the Red Sea Crossing as a sign ...
The Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt (1830 painting by David Roberts). Bo (בֹּא —in Hebrew, the command form of "go," or "come," and the first significant word in the parashah, in Exodus 10:1) is the fifteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Exodus.
The Haggadah explores the meaning of those verses, and embellishes the story. This telling describes the slavery of the Jewish people and their miraculous salvation by God. This culminates in an enumeration of the Ten Plagues: Dam (blood) – All the water was changed to blood; Tzefardeyah (frogs) – An infestation of frogs sprang up in Egypt