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To: epicure who wrote (219491)	2/19/2007 10:45:14 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

"God is always on the side of the largest Army." And the best generals... Obviously God likes to win ;-) Unfortunately, God isn't as omnipotent as He used to be. In the old days, He would just part the waters for the little guy and then collapse them on the larger army. He was also very big on terrorism and collective punishment to achieve political goals. The Plagues of Egypt (Hebrew: ???? ?????, Makot Mitzrayim) or the Ten Plagues (??? ?????, Eser Ha-Makot) are the ten calamities inflicted upon Egypt by God in the Biblical story recounted the book of Exodus, chapters 7 - 12, in order to convince Pharaoh (possibly Ramesses II, making the pharaoh of the Oppression Horemheb) to let the Israelite slaves leave. The plagues as they appear in the Torah are: 1. (Exodus 7:14-25) rivers and other water sources turned to blood ('Dam') 2. (Exodus 7:26-8:11) reptiles (commonly believed to be frogs) ('Tsfardeia') 3. (Exodus 8:12-15) lice ('Kinim') 4. (Exodus 8:16-28) Either flies, wild animals or beetles ('Arov') 5. (Exodus 9:1-7) disease on livestock ('Dever') 6. (Exodus 9:8-12) unhealable boils ('Shkhin') 7. (Exodus 9:13-35) hail mixed with fire ('Barad') 8. (Exodus 10:1-20) locusts ('Arbeh') 9. (Exodus 10:21-29) darkness ('Choshech') 10. (Exodus 11:1-12:36) death of the firstborn ('Makat Bechorot') en.wikipedia.org