Moses warns Pharaoh in advance of the second, fourth, fifth and seventh plagues, giving him every opportunity to avoid them: they are only deployed when Pharaoh rejects the Israelites’ ultimatum.

Moses and Aaron bring lice. But the necromancers, their powers waning, can’t conjure up lice. A couple of plagues later, the necromancers’ defeat is total. Moses afflicts the Egyptians with boils.

Why Moses’s brother worshipped a golden calf. Although Aaron induced plagues against Pharaoh, his weak faith led to the death of 3,000 men and the destruction of the original Ten Commandments.

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.

Ten plagues and a betrayal—how Moses saved the Hebrew slaves. The Prophet defied his adopted family to free the slaves in Egypt. A portrait of the Prophet Moses, created in 1645.

One scholar says it was Moses' drug-induced hallucination. The 10 plagues? You can blame ancient dinoflagellates for everything from the blood red Nile to the death of firstborn sons.

Before he parted whatever sea it was he parted, the Bible describes Moses and his brother Aaron delivering 10 plagues on the people of Egypt. The Nile turns to blood, all the fish die, frogs are ...