The ten plagues are no exception, and over the years scientists have been curious about whether the story of the plagues may have been based on some event that can be proved to have happened.
Here are three of the major theories to know. This theory argues that the plagues were really the fallout of volcanic eruption on the island of Santorini in the south of Greece around BCE. Winds would have carried the volcanic ash to Egypt at some point over the summer, and the toxic acids in the volcanic ash would have included the mineral cinnabar, which could have been capable of turning a river a blood-like red color, Trevisanato holds.
The accumulated acidity in the water would have caused frogs to leap out and search for clean water. Insects would have burrowed eggs in the bodies of dead animals and human survivors, which generated larvae and then adult insects. The grass would have been contaminated, poisoning the animals that ate it. The humidity from the rain and the subsequent hail would have created optimal conditions for locusts to thrive. Volcanic eruptions could also explain the several days of darkness — which means nine plagues are accounted for.
Trevisanato also found an ancient Egyptian account of the children of aristocrats lying dead in public and archaeological data matching the account. He believes that, amid all this destruction, firstborn children could have been sacrificed out of desperation, in the hopes that such a meaningful sacrifice would lead their gods to stop punishing them.
This theory — put forth by scientists like John S. Just as in the volcano theory, frogs then leapt out looking for food, and died. Without frogs to eat the insects, the pests proliferated and feasted on corpses, a feeding frenzy for flies and locusts. Improve this answer.
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Do you believe "all Egypt" included the Israelites or might it be just Egyptians? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta. God rained hail, fire and thunder upon Egypt and the hail struck down all the crops in the fields and shattered every tree. In the picture, the hail stones red and white dots are falling on a tree, as a shepherd and his goats shelter underneath.
Hail storms were unusual in arid regions such as Egypt and were therefore extremely frightening. Moses, on the right, pleads with God to stop the storm. God told Moses to stretch out his hand over the land of Egypt to bring a plague of locusts. The locusts covered the face of the land and swallowed up every crop and all the fruits of the trees. Afterwards there was nothing green in the trees, and all the crops in the fields had been destroyed.
Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness over the land of Egypt. This darkness was so total that the Egyptians had to feel their way around. Then Pharaoh offered to set the Israelites free, on condition that they let their sheep and cattle remain.
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