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Passover Story - The Ten Plagues
Contributed by Michael Greenberg

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God sent down ten plagues on the people of Egypt.  During each plague Pharaoh agrees to let the Jewish People go but after each plague ends he reneges.  After the seventh plague the people of Egypt beg Pharaoh to let the Jewish People go but he refuses.  Here are the plagues that afflicted Egypt.

Blood

Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; and lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

Frogs

And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

Lice

Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

Flies and Wild Beasts

And there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

Hordes of wild animals invade the cities

Pestilence

God sent a pestilence to kill all of the cattle of the Egyptians, but the cattle of the Jewish People were spared.

Boils

Painful boils break out amongst Pharaoh and his magicians and all of the Egyptian people.

Hail

And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

Locusts

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Darkness

And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

The Slaying of the First Born

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

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