The Plagues Of Egypt Essay

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Also known as the Plagues of Egypt or the Ten Biblical Plagues, from the Old Testament describes an occurrence of ten different catastrophes generated that takes place around 1446BC.
First God causes the Pharoah to become determined not to let the Israelites leave Egypt and as a consequence Moses and Aaron, with God's assistance, generates the Ten Plagues in order to prove to the Israelites that the Egyptian gods were powerless against him. The plagues are written about in Exodus 7:21, 8:6, 8:17, 8:24, 9:6, 9:10, 9:23, 10:13, 10:22 and 11:5. They consist of all the fish dying in the rivers, frogs leaving the river, gnats and lice, flies, livestock dying, boils on skin, hail, locusts, darkness for three days and death of all first-born Egyptians.
During the reign of the Hyksos, from 1650 to …show more content…

In the Nile Delta region, several miles of the waterways would be considered as brackish water due to the mixture of fresh water from the river and salt water from the Mediterranean Sea. One of the affects of the Thera Eruption was a earthquake followed by a tsunami, which would force brackish water to move further inland into the delta region and increase the chances of a Red Algae occurrence.
There have been several times within Egypt's history that the Nile River turned red due to torrential rainfalls in the Ethopian mountains causing floods that erode the red clay soil in Ethopia and turn the water into a red color. However, these rainstorms and floods only occur during the months of May to August, whereas, the Ten Plagues was followed by the first Passover that took place in March or April.
The punishment the Egyptians with the Ten Plagues occurred while the Israelites lived in a city named Pi-Ramesses or Rameses, from Exodus 12:37, which was constructed as the captial city for Ramesses II, who ruled from 1279 to

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