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TEN PLAGUES
What were those powerful signs and wonders? We begged
Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, to let us go free, but Pharaoh’s
heart was as hard as stone. To change Pharaoh’s heart, God
sent ten messages. Each message was a plague – something
frightening or bad, that could make Pharaoh understand
that what he was doing was wrong.
These Ten Plagues scared the Egyptians. Some of the
plagues ruined things that Egyptians prayed to, like the
Nile River and the sun. Some made them sick, like sores, or
spoiled their food, like locusts that ate up the plants in the
fields. After each plague, Pharaoh thought about letting the
Jews go free, but he always changed his mind.
Finally, God sent the tenth – and worst – plague: the eldest
son in every Egyptian family got sick and died. At last,
Pharaoh said, “Enough! Let the Jews go.”
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