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The frogs were gone. Vanished! You'd think he'd be thanking his lucky stars. You'd think he’d be packing up the Israelites and sending them on their way with a "Godspeed!" But nope...
We all know the story of Moses, Pharaoh, and the Israelites, but the ancient texts hint at a deeper, more magical struggle. : Pharaoh's magicians were a crucial part of the drama. ...
Moses is pleading with Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery, and things are… not going well. Three plagues have already hit Egypt, each one worse than the last. You'd thi...
That’s what the fourth plague was like for the ancient Egyptians. Pharaoh, stubborn as ever, had ignored the previous warnings. He wouldn't release the Israelites, wouldn't listen ...
We know the big picture: Pharaoh’s stubbornness, the Israelites’ suffering, and God’s mighty hand. But what about the little things? Like, what happened to all those dead animals a...
It wasn't just a few gnats buzzing around, was it? It was… well, let's take a look at one of them, the plague of boils, and see how the tradition amplifies the already incredible s...
Because true magic, the kind wielded by prophets and emanating from the Divine, is something else entirely. Consider the story of the Egyptian magicians and their fateful encounter...
The ancient stories wrestle with these questions, too. Take the story of Pharaoh and the plagues in Egypt. We all know the story: Moses demands freedom for the Israelites, Pharaoh ...
They're opposites. Always battling it out. But in one of the most dramatic stories in the Torah, the Exodus from Egypt, we see them working together in a truly terrifying way. I'm ...
