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. Each time ...

The Bible tells us that the Red Sea parted in two as Moses led the Israelites to safety from ancient Egypt, and now experts ...

Once Moses arrives and the plagues begin, the enslaved Israelites almost fade into the background. This week’s reading zeroes ...

but Pharaoh wouldn’t move. Oh, no…” “Oh no….!” “So God brought ten plagues upon the Egyptians….ten dreadful plagues that made the people on the banks of the Nile shake and shudder ...

The 10 plagues were described in the Book of Exodus as disasters sent from God to the Egyptian pharaoh in order to convince him to free the Jewish people: water turning into blood, frogs ...

Plague after plague advances in a special way which convinces Pharaoh of Hashem's existence and his very personal relationship with this world. Immediately after Moshe requests to let the Jewish ...

The first three plagues were also for the purpose of responding to Pharaoh’s statement in Sh’mot 5, verse 2, that he didn’t know HaShem. These plagues served as an introduction and were kept ...

A “battle of the network gods” — each plague attacking, in turn, one of the gods of ancient Egypt. The purpose: to demonstrate to Pharaoh that God is more powerful than the local deities.

Pharaoh would have had no choice but to let the Jews go because of the severity of the plagues. They were so harsh that Pharaoh would have promptly acceded to Moses’s requests in order for the ...