The Ten Plagues
Exodus
Old Testament

The Ten Plagues

A contest with Egypt

An escalating sequence of signs framed as a contest between the God of Israel and the gods of Egypt.

Reading plan

Exodus 7Exodus 8Exodus 9Exodus 10Exodus 11

How the story unfolds

  1. 1

    Let my people go

    The demand is made and refused.

    Exodus 7
  2. 2

    Water, frogs, lice, flies

    The first signs strike the Nile and the land.

    Exodus 7Exodus 8
  3. 3

    Livestock, boils, hail, locusts, darkness

    The pressure escalates across the economy and the sky.

    Exodus 9Exodus 10
  4. 4

    The final warning

    The last plague is announced.

    Exodus 11

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