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The plagues: Why 10? Why these?

Consider a proportionate divine response to extraordinary cruelty: A gradual, ratcheting pressure on a tyrant who refused every opportunity to stop the suffering (Vaera) ...
The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World provides a history of the interpretations of each of the 10 plagues in ...
COMMENTARY: Far from arbitrary punishments, the plagues of Egypt are presented in Exodus as divine signs meant to call ...
The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really ...
This is the weakness of power in a nutshell. As the kid is happily ruining his relationship, and possibly his life, just for ...
“There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...
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 ...