Chapter 2, plagues
moses returned to Egypt [4.19 alone=18.2 divorced now] to Aron. they met Israel's elders. Aaron did the snake sign for the nation, who *beleived n bowed. Moses came [5.1] with Aaron to Pharo +which? lacks name so readers know none of the pharos, just a lesson fable+/ Aron told him the message.
"i dont know your god. I wont free israel,” paro replyd n orderd to stop giving straw for bricks. Israel must gather straw and make the same number of bricks as before. the slave drivers did all that and hit the Israelite overseers for not making the amount of bricks.
NOTE: moses was supposed to show paro the wonders 4.21! so: aron threw his staff [7.10] by paro. it was a snake. paro called magicians who also did that +illusion+/ aron's staff swallowed their staffs.
the Israelite overseers [5.14] complaind to Paro n left n told Moses that god will judge you for making it worse. Moses prayed. (God answerd 6.1 is repetition). Moses told Israel [6.9] about freedom but they despaired. moses and aron were sons of Amram [see endnote] n had 6 cousins. god told Moses to go at dawn to the river, to tell Paro:
"god sent me. send israel, if not, the Nile river will change to BLOOD. its fish will die so it will stink. egyptians won't be able to drink from it." Moses did all that. Aron hit the river using his staff [7.18] n it occurd [apuwer papyrus=AP 2,10: river was BLOOD. near it AP 2.13: everywhere/everyone buryd their brother, so i will fix the order.
NOTE: despite some miracles were supernatural, still 2 types of miracles: some were rational=as many as possible. egyptian magicians made illusions: snake n blood so similarly the river seemed blood due to red clay that choked the fish dead. frogs fled stinky river into towns. Lice due to stopd washing in the stinky river...
the rotten fish caused animal death to many that drank. their illness spread to human skin like anthrax: Humans can catch anthrax SKIN lesions from ill animals. egypt *bout herds n led them away from river to the wild where a "mix" of wild beasts attacked. winds caused huge hail that fell. unusually many locusts came...
volcanic ash filled the air so even candles did not help! dark! perhaps ash also caused the red river that started the series. ash can irritate skin! all same time, but the papyrus record: dark was last, so bible just lesson fable around the bit supported by papyrus.]
egyptians dug water [7.23] around the river that magicians changed to blood. moses told paro that god said, "Israel is my firstborn [4.22]. If you dont free my firstborn, all Egyptian firstborn [11.3] will die." so it was [12.29, AP 2.13 by blood. jeremiah 7 prophecy was that god did not command animal sacrifice.]
great cries occurd because every home had a death. God told moses, "stretch your hand for DARK," [10.21] so Moses obeyd. darkness came [AP 10.21 dark is the only other match and last] for egyptians, 3 days. paro came to moses and freed israel [12.31]. egyptians gave gold to urge israel to go. Moses took Josef's bones [13.19].
Israelites EXITED with weapons. by day, a pillar of cloud led them. It became a PILLAR of fire, to travel at *nyt. To all the camp, came BIRDS [16.13]. Moses said, "Six days [16.26] gather but on the seventh day, it will not *com.” on the sixth day they gathered for two days [16:5=22]. they "baked [16.23] or cooked" it [birds].
they traveled three days [15.22] in the desert without finding WATER. they campd by bitter water. Moses prayd to god who showed him a tree. He threw wood into the water that they drank. they left and campd by water springs. they left n campd where there was no water [17.1] to drink, so Moses prayd. god told Moses, “hit that rock."
Moses did and exposed a water spring. there, an army attacked Israel. hornets [23.28] kept them a way. Moses sent *Joshua, who chose men to battle against the army. at dawn, Joshua battled successfully [17.10].
Moses, Aaron and Hur went to a hill top. Moses held up his hands, and the hornets returned and poisoned the army. Moses’ hands became tired so Aaron and Hur each held a hand up. the attackers fell and by sunset they died. Moses anointed a stone.
ENDNOTE: Amram was the son of who? this is a problem. someone needs to edit the problems: Kohat son of Levi entered egypt with 70 relatives. Amram was from Kohat who lived 133 years. Amram lived 137 years at the SAME time as his father! 400 years is more than the time listed here, in exodus chapter 6. which to believe?
less years? or more generations? but... remember the question about WHICH paro!
continued at
https://thinkforyourselfn8.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-ezv-bible-exodus-chapters-13.html
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