Here are three theories that scientists believe might explain how the 10 plagues in the Exodus story could have happened in Ancient Egypt.

The ninth event (tangible darkness) harms no one physically but is psychologically profound; “a darkness upon the land of Egypt, a tangible darkness” (Exodus 10:21) “People could not see one ...

These plagues are described in chapters 7 through 11 of the book of Exodus. The plagues were water turned into blood, frogs, lice, gnats, diseased livestock, boils, hail, locusts, darkness for ...

As anyone who has seen The Ten Commandments can attest, the parting of the Red Sea is one of, if not the most, climactic moments in the Passover story. As Exodus describes it: And Moses stretched ...

The answer is that the Ten Plagues, far from constituting an episode of wanton violence, were an exercise in prudence, restraint and morality in the waging of a just war. And this was indeed a ...

During the Seder service, the plagues are recounted one by one, accompanied by the dipping of one’s finger into a glass of wine and dropping the wine on your plate.Though in the end the plagues ...

Ten plagues and a betrayal—how Moses saved the Hebrew slaves. ... (Exodus 3:7). God then charged Moses to lead the Israelites out of bondage and bring them to the Promised Land.

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, gnats ...