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The traditional number of ten plagues is not actually mentioned in Exodus, and other sources differ; Psalms 78 and 105 seem to list only seven or eight plagues and order them differently. [1] It appears that originally there were only seven, to which were added the third, sixth, and ninth, bringing the count to ten. [27]: 83–84
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").
The book accepts the biblical story as factual and supports an early Exodus hypothesis, prior to a biblical date posited as ca. 1440 BCE. According to the author, "The Exodus was in fact two separate exoduses. [2] The first exodus followed a 1628 BCE Minoan eruption that produced all but one of the first nine plagues. The second exodus followed ...
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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] In the first book of the ...
The chronology of the Exodus narrative is symbolic: for example, its culminating event, the erection of the Tabernacle as Yahweh's dwelling-place among his people, occurs in the year 2666 Anno Mundi (Year of the World, meaning 2666 years after God creates the world), and two-thirds of the way through a four thousand year era which culminates in ...
The Hebrew Bible is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures and is the textual source for the Christian Old Testament.In addition to religious instruction, the collection chronicles a series of events that explain the origins and travels of the Hebrew peoples in the ancient Near East.
Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus; The seven plagues poured out from seven bowls in Revelation 15:5-16:21;