Exodus 10-12
- Just when I thought the plagues were done with #7...
Plague 8: Locusts.
- Exodus 10:5 suggests that some time has passed since He sent the hail down, long enough for plants to regrow, which makes me think that enough time had passed between the pestilence and the boils and the hail for more livestock to be bought & born in order for the hail to come along and wreck everything.
Plague 9: Darkness.
- Perhaps not perpetual night but a super, bad ass sandstorm that makes it seem like night.
Plague 10: Death of the First-Born.
- What was the point in taking all the gold, silver, and clothes? Especially when Exodus 11 talks about all the first-borns dying & nothing else about the valuables? I'm also assuming that God wasn't talking about just the children, and that some families lost mothers, fathers, grandparents, or some mixture of everything. What if some families were entirely wiped out because they were comprised of all first-borns?
- And here's the mention of the silver, gold, and clothes. What a thing to do, to make a nation so poor after killing so many to essentially punish its' ruler for being a huge jerk.
- And just like that, the Israelites are gone, and the requirements for celebrating Passover are explained. They're very adamant about the circumcision.
- Also, I realized that Exodus is 40 chapters long, and I'm not even half way yet. Wow...
- Just when I thought the plagues were done with #7...
Plague 8: Locusts.
- Exodus 10:5 suggests that some time has passed since He sent the hail down, long enough for plants to regrow, which makes me think that enough time had passed between the pestilence and the boils and the hail for more livestock to be bought & born in order for the hail to come along and wreck everything.
Plague 9: Darkness.
- Perhaps not perpetual night but a super, bad ass sandstorm that makes it seem like night.
Plague 10: Death of the First-Born.
- What was the point in taking all the gold, silver, and clothes? Especially when Exodus 11 talks about all the first-borns dying & nothing else about the valuables? I'm also assuming that God wasn't talking about just the children, and that some families lost mothers, fathers, grandparents, or some mixture of everything. What if some families were entirely wiped out because they were comprised of all first-borns?
- And here's the mention of the silver, gold, and clothes. What a thing to do, to make a nation so poor after killing so many to essentially punish its' ruler for being a huge jerk.
- And just like that, the Israelites are gone, and the requirements for celebrating Passover are explained. They're very adamant about the circumcision.
- Also, I realized that Exodus is 40 chapters long, and I'm not even half way yet. Wow...
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