The Passover story everyone knows has God striking down the Egyptian firstborn. The Targum Jonathan's version of (Exodus 12) is almost unrecognizably more detailed, packed with numbers, angels, and theological specifics that the Hebrew Bible leaves out entirely.
Start with the army. The Targum says God was accompanied by "ninety thousand myriads of destroying angels" on the night of the plague. That is nine hundred billion angels descending on Egypt in a single night. The Hebrew text says nothing about angelic accompaniment. This is pure Targum invention, and it transforms the tenth plague from a divine act into a cosmic military operation.
Then there are the four judgments against Egyptian idols. The Targum specifies: "the molten idols shall be melted, the idols of stone be broken, the idols of clay shall be shattered, and the idols of wood be made dust." The Hebrew Bible mentions judgment against Egypt's gods in a single phrase. The Targum breaks this into a systematic four-part destruction matched to each material.
The Targum adds a "Book of Memorials" containing four cosmic nights: creation, Abraham's covenant, the Egyptian plague, and the future messianic redemption. This four-night theology does not exist anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. It connects Passover to the beginning and end of history itself.
The geography gets specific too. Pharaoh's palace sat at the entrance of Egypt, four hundred parasangs from Goshen, yet his screaming voice carried all the way to Moses. The Israelites departed with seven clouds of glory protecting them on all sides, and each man brought five children. These are the additions of ancient translators who refused to leave a single narrative gap unfilled.