Egypt’s Gods and the Ten Plagues

Egypt’s Gods and the Ten Plagues
 

Jehovah executed judgment on Egypt’s impotent gods by means of the Ten Plagues.—Exodus 7:14–12:32.
 

Plague  Description
 

 1      Nile and other waters turned to blood. Nile-god Hapi
        disgraced

 

 2      Frogs. Frog-goddess Heqt powerless to prevent it
 

 3      Dust turned to gnats. Thoth, lord of magic, could not help
        the Egyptian magicians
 

 4      Gadflies on all Egypt except Goshen where Israel dwelt. No
        god was able to prevent it—not even Ptah, creator of the
        universe, or Thoth, lord of magic
 

 5      Pestilence on livestock. Neither sacred cow-goddess Hathor
        nor Apis the bull could prevent this plague
 

 6      Boils. Healer deities Thoth, Isis, and Ptah unable to help
 

 7      Thunder and hail. Exposed the impotence of Reshpu,
        controller of lightning, and Thoth, god of rain and
        thunder
 

 8      Locusts. This was a blow to the fertility-god Min,
        protector  of crops
 

 9      Three days of darkness. Ra, the preeminent sun-god, and
        Horus, a solar god, disgraced
 

10      Death of the firstborn including Pharaoh’s, who was
        considered to be a god incarnate. Ra (Amon-Ra), sun-god
        and sometimes represented as a ram, was unable to impede
        it