A continuation of the previous article, this one is about the Biblical accounts of Moses' interactions with Pharaoh, trying to gain freedom for the Hebrews. There are many documented evidences that this event really happened.
In my previous article we looked at different stories, fables, myths and such regarding the Earth's earliest days. We looked at a few of those legends regarding separate instances where the Earth was either destroyed or attacked with a natural cataclysm. In the Bible, in the book of Exodus, we read about various plagues that God placed on Egypt because the king would not let his Hebrew slaves free. The first time Moses asked the Pharaoh to let his people go, he used a rod that turned into a serpent that ate the serpents that had been created by the Pharaoh's magicians. Pharaoh refused even after witnessing this power and so the next day Moses went down to the river, and struck the water with his staff and it turned to blood and all the fish died. Nobody could drink that water, and Moses' brother Aaron used his staff to turn all the water in Egypt to blood so the people had nothing pure to drink, and Moses asked again to let his people go. The bloody water lasted for seven days but Pharaoh would still not let his slaves go free.
The next plague that overcame Egypt because of sin was an overpopulation of frogs. There were frogs everywhere, frogs in the food, frogs in the homes, frogs in the people's clothing. But when Moses prayed the frogs all died, and the king hardened his heart yet again. The next plague to come upon Egypt was swarms of lice, that infested every living thing, both man and beast. When Pharaoh still did not let the Hebrews go, flies came over the land of Egypt, corrupting the land. The flies made a distinction, however, between the Hebrews and the Egyptians, and did not bother the Hebrews at all. When the Hebrew people were still not allowed to leave to worship their God, God sent a plague of death to all the herds and flocks belonging to the Egyptians. The Hebrew's flocks were spared, but all of the animals belonging to the Egyptians died in one night. Still, Pharaoh did not let the Hebrew people go.
The next plague was that of hail, deadly hail that would kill anything or anyone that it touched. Those that feared the Lord stayed in their homes and kept their cattle close to them. Those who did not fear the Lord stayed outside or left their animals outside during the hail storm and they were all destroyed. This was not your ordinary hail either, it was a storm of hail and fire, such as had never been seen before or since. But in the land of Goshen where the Hebrews were, there was no hail or fire. This was an extremely destructive storm, breaking all the trees, and killing all the plants of Egypt. When Pharaoh, (a very slow learner) still did not let the Hebrews go, the next plague fell on Egypt. This was in the form of a swarm of locusts. These insects came over the land like a cloud and ate everything growing that had not been consumed by the hail and fire.
Even that did not work, so the next plague was a very thick darkness, darkness unlike anything ever experienced before by man. There were no stars in the sky, no moon in the heavens, no sunlight during the day. The darkness was so heavy and thick that it was actually palpable, it could be felt. This darkness lasted three days. The Hebrews count a day as an evening and a morning, while the Egyptians counted a day as a morning and an evening. I imagine the Egyptian style was the one used to count those three days, not that they could tell when one day ended and another had begun, and the reason I believe this was because if this plague followed the example of the previous ones, the Hebrews were probably not invited to the dark party. Still the Pharaoh would not let the people go. The next and final plague was the worst of them all.
For this reason the Jews today still celebrate the "Passover" meal, using the traditional foods; a roasted lamb, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. For the original passover was the night that the angel of the Lord passed over all the land of Egypt and killed the first born of every home without lamb's blood on the doorposts. The Hebrew homes were protected by this blood, but the Egyptian homes were not, and all the first born died that night, including Pharaoh's. Finally, the children of God were allowed to leave and leave they did, with much haste, hoping to get out of town before the king changed his mind again. Naturally, he did change his mind and he personally led the charge into the night to bring back the Hebrews. That was when God parted the waters of the Red Sea, to allow the Hebrews to pass through on dry ground and released the waters so that the Pharaoh and his army were drowned.
