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The Book of Exodus tells us what to expect from Russia in its war against Ukraine.
According to the biblical Book of Exodus, the Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities inflicted by God to convince the ...
Those plagues, in the order of the story in the Book of Exodus are blood, frogs, lice, insects, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the death of the Egyptian firstborn.
Did you ever wonder why there were ten separate plagues that struck Pharaoh and the Egyptians during the process of the Jewish exodus from Egypt? Wouldn’t it have been more efficient for Hashem ...
The lists of plagues in the two chapters of Psalms (78 and 105) that retell the story in poetry are not identical to the list in Exodus or to each other; they seem to describe a smaller number of ...
When news stories about bedbugs started showing up a few years back, I wrote that bedbugs were out of my father's world, the 1920s world of immigrant tenement dwellers. My father told hilariously ...
The Exodus occurred in the spring and Solomon’s Temple building began in the spring (the month after Passover), so the building began in the spring of 966 BCE, between the two Tishri new years.
The 10 Plagues of Egypt detailed in the book of Exodus in the Old Testament—estimated to have been written in the 13th century BCE—still hold a terrible fascination. Likewise, the Plague of Thebes, ...
Passover traditionally involves a recitation of 10 plagues the faithful believe God inflicted on Egypt amid the Exodus more than 3,000 years ago: Rivers turning to blood and swarms of frogs and ...