When the Passover holiday begins on Friday at sundown, Jewish people around the world will celebrate by retelling the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt — including the 10 plagues that God ...

The Plagues of Egypt were a series of calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted on Egypt to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. Although the ...

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Exodus’ most devastating plague exposes the price of resistance to God — and why the loss of the firstborn struck at the very heart of Egypt. Charles Sprague Pearce, “Lamentations ...

“There’s blood everywhere Lo, the River is blood.” These more ancient words are not as direct. To be read out of the Ipuwer Papyrus, this haunting line has engendered scholarly dispute and religious ...

For several weeks, we have been reading the Torah portions that describe the Ten Plagues: blood, frogs, lice, raging beasts that were composites of multiple animals, animal pestilence, boils, hail, ...

Passover is a wonderful holiday. It is a time to gather together with family and friends. It provides an opportunity to reconnect with the millennia old line of the Jewish People. On Passover, we ...

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A student recently asked me why the Bible seems to have so many plagues in it and what all these plagues are for. To give a quick answer, in the Bible, plagues occur because the Almighty is angry ...

As if being in a pandemic isn’t enough with its health and economic ramifications, we're being infiltrated by biting gnats and subjected to severe weather, including tornadoes. Now there's a ...