We Have This Bible Story Backwards
Exodus 12:12 has God announcing that he will execute judgment on all the gods of Egypt, and Numbers 33:4 repeats the claim. Most of us were taught the ten plagues as a series of disasters meant to pressure Pharaoh into letting Israel go. The text itself says something more specific, and the Egyptian setting shows what it was.
In this video, we go through the plagues one at a time and ask what each one hit in Egyptian religion. The Nile was worshiped as a source of life, so the first plague turns it to blood. Frogs were tied to Heqet, a goddess of childbirth, and they come swarming out of the…
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