The Biblical Plagues of Egypt Are Really Happening
Plagues of frogs, blood, lice, diseased livestock and boils; we have inflicted all of them on ourselves.
Time for some bible study. The Book of Exodus is the second book of the Old Testament and the Torah. It tells the story of how the Israelites are liberated from slavery in Egypt through the strength of their god Yahweh, and their journey, led by Moses, through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh promises them the land of Canaan in return for their faithfulness.
Per the Book of Exodus, the Israelites had been driven from their lands by famine and had ended up as slaves in Egypt. Yahweh inflicts ten plagues on the Egyptians in order to persuade the Pharaoh to let his people return home. ‘Let my people go, so that they may worship me,’ demands Yahweh, as he unleashes death, darkness and famine.
Historians consider The Plagues of Egypt to have been entirely mythical. But that’s not to say they can’t happen. What follows is an exploration of how a selection of the ten mythical plagues have come to pass at different times and places across the world — not by the hand of God, but by our own.
