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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 ...
Moses warns Pharaoh of the impending plague of locusts. Pharaoh's officials beg him to let the men go, but he is still unwilling to give in. He proposes a compromise: the men will be allowed to go, while women, children and livestock will remain in Egypt. Moses repeats God's demand that every last person and animal shall go, but Pharaoh refuses.
Edersheim states that Thutmose II is the only pharaoh's mummy to display cysts, possible evidence of plagues that spread through the Egyptian and Hittite Empires at that time. [ 18 ] Amenhotep II (ca. 1455–1418 BC) claimed to have brought tens of thousands of slaves from the Levant to Egypt which could be an explanation for the existence of ...
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.
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God tells Moses that the final plague of Egypt is the death of all Egyptian first born males. This plague will cause Pharaoh to send the Israelites away, and God orders Moses to prepare the people to leave. PEOPLE: יהוה YHVH God - Moses - Pharaoh - Aaron - children of Israel. PLACES: Egypt. RELATED ARTICLES: Bo (parsha) - Plagues of Egypt
Shemot, on Exodus 1–5: Affliction in Egypt, discovery of baby Moses, Pharaoh; Va'eira, on Exodus 6–9: Plagues 1 to 7 of Egypt; Bo, on Exodus 10–13: Last plagues of Egypt, first Passover; Beshalach, on Exodus 13–17: Parting the Sea, water, manna, Amalek; Yitro, on Exodus 18–20: Jethro's advice, The Ten Commandments
Pharaoh's magicians are able to match the first plagues, in which Yahweh turns the Nile to blood and produces a plague of frogs, but they cannot match any plagues starting with the third, the plague of gnats. [18] After each plague, Pharaoh asks the Israelites to worship Yahweh to remove the plague, then still refuses to free them.