Exodus' plagues

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I believe that I heard or read some place that the plagues had been about the gods of Egypt.

If the is accurate, what information do we have about their gods of blood, frogs, gnats, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and death of first born?

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Jim_Baur said:
Might you help a stupid man, please. Thank you!

I believe that I heard or read some place that the plagues had been about the gods of Egypt.

If the is accurate, what information do we have about their gods of blood, frogs, gnats, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and death of first born?

THANKS!!!
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I can’t answer all of them, but here are some obvious ones:

Gnats and flies: Egyptians venerated insects (sacred scarabs, etc.), so this one is simple.

Darkness: Sun worship was common in ancient Egypt. (Aton or Aten was the Great Sun God, and Akhenaton considered him the only God.)

Death of the first born: This can be viewed in two ways: (1) as Divine vengeance for Pharaoh’s command to execute the Israelite male children (in Exodus 1), or (2) as a reference to Egyptian beliefs about the land of the dead, Osiris, etc.

Hail: The hail killed many of the Egyptians’ cattle, but spared the Israelites. Worship of a god in the form of a bull (Apis) was common in Egyptian religion.
 
One more The first the Nile turned to Blood: The Egyptians worshipped the Nile as a god, blood spilled was loss of life because life was in the blood so the Nile being turned to blood was like the Nile was slain.
Grace and peace,
Bruce
 
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One more The first the Nile turned to Blood: The Egyptians worshipped the Nile as a god, blood spilled was loss of life because life was in the blood so the Nile being turned to blood was like the Nile was slain.
Grace and peace,
Bruce
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I didn’t know that one, cool. Did they really worship the Nile though? I thought that they essentially venerated it as the symbolic passage between life and death, but veneration is not worship…

Either way, very interesting.
 
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