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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...