sunday school: the plagues and the hebrew exodus
for not releasing the hebrew captives from slavery, god kills all the egyptian animals [including horses] with a plaque of disease [ex.9:3-6]. four verses later, all those same animals become infested with boils [ex.9:10]. then, eight verses later, he kills a good portion of them again with a big hail storm [ex.9:18-25]. but in the next chapter, they really get it. god kills all the first-born of the egyptians, including cattle [ex.11:4-5,10]. i wonder what kind of animals they were raising, because after having been stricken with various diseases and being killed multiple times, their horses still managed to carry well over 600 chariots to pursue the escape hebrews [ex.14:6-9]. i don't think this is supposed to be the moral of the story, but i'm really impressed with those egyptian guys. that's a damn worthy adversary if you ask me. how come none of our animals can do that? and people say we're advanced. Matt @ 9:50 AM