The Ten Plagues
- Found: Exodus chapter 5 - 13
Moses Talks to Pharaoh (Exodus 5 - 7v13)
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh as God had asked them. They talked to Pharaoh and asked him to let their people go. Pharaoh's heart was hard and he refused them. He made the Hebrews make bricks without providing straw, causing them to work harder to do the same tasks.
Moses went to Pharaoh again. To prove he was sent from God, he threw down his rod and it turned into a snake. Pharaoh got his magicians in and they also turned their rods into snakes, but Moses' snake ate up the other snakes. Despite this, Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go.
The Ten Plagues (Exodus 7v14 - 13v22)
After Pharaoh refused Moses, God ordered Moses to make a plague occur. Then he went again to Pharaoh, who again refused. This happened ten times, with the following plagues:
- Plague of blood
- Plague of frogs
- Plague of lice
- Plague of flies
- Disease of cattle
- Plague of boils
- Plague of thunder, hail and fire
- Plague of locusts
- Plague of darkness
- Plague of firstborn
For the first nine plagues, the destruction in Egypt was terrible, yet each time Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go. The last plague was the worst of all. God was going to destroy the firstborn male of every family, human and animal. The Hebrews were given special instructions on how to avoid this plague. They were to keep a lamb in their houses for three days. When the day before the plague was upon them, they were to gather up all their possessions and be ready to leave. They were to sacrifice the lambs, spread the blood of the lambs on the doorposts and lintels of their doors and eat the lamb for dinner, along with unleavened bread.
The day came and the Jews followed the instructions given by God. That night the angel of death passed through Egypt, killing the firstborn of every household, including Pharaoh's oldest son. The angel passed over the houses with blood on the doors, leaving them untouched. In the morning Pharaoh was very upset, and promised the Israelites they could go. They quickly gathered together all their things and headed off into the desert. There were over two million Jews that came out from Egypt.
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