![]() Hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground and the LORD rained hail Not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.Īnd Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and This time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath The Plague of Hail (with fire and thunder) 9:18 Behold, tomorrow about The Plague of Boils and Blains (sores and painful skin infection) 9:8Īnd the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls ofĪshes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven inĩ:9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shallīe a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, This doesn't seem like a particularly close match. He points out that they are miserable (but not necessarily sick) and that they're allowed to wander away. While Exodus describes a deadly disease, Ipuwer seems to be describing neglect. “Behold, cattleĪre left to stray, and there is none to gather them together” (9:2–3). Sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain. Horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the Hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the The Murrain (pestilence which killed cattle and sheep) 9:3 Behold, the Houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the Upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the Let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and The Plague of Flies (specifically dog-fly) 8:21 Else, if thou wilt not The dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite The Plague of Lice (gnats or mosquitoes more than likely) 8:16 And the Possibly writing in retrospect, frogs and bugs didn't seem as historically significant against what happened later. ![]() The rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the The Plague of Frogs 8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over This seems at face value to be a good match although Exodus adds the extra detail about water turning to blood in artificial vessels not connected to the water system. Shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin” (3:10–13). “That is our water! That is our happiness! What Men shrink from tasting-human beings, and thirstĪfter water” (2:10). Vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. That there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in Of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds,Īnd upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood and Unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters The Nile River turned to Blood 7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say One by one, quoting first Exodus (from Biblesprout) and then Ipuwer: Housed in Leiden, the Netherlands, at the Dutch National Museum ofĪntiquities, the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Giovanni Anastasi purchased the Ipuwer Papyrus in 1828, and it is now Now entitled “The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All.” Dutchman Is known as “The Admonitions of Ipuwer.” A new edition is available The Ipuwer Papyrus is the sole surviving manuscript of an ancientĮgyptian poem officially designated as Papyrus Leiden I-344. Further caveats: there may be translation issues that I'd be unqualified to comment on, and it wouldn't be uncommon for observers from different cultures to describe the same events differently.īoth references refer exclusively to the Ipuwer Papyrus, which this "answer" is essentially a critique of. This is a "best effort" answer, since we don't really have anything definitive, and can't prove a negative. I'll take a crack at an answer based on Matthew's sources ( Ipuwer papyrus.
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