The first plague, described in Exodus 7:14-24, was the reddening of the Nile. “All the water in Egypt- right from water already in buckets and jars, to ponds, canals, streams, even the Nile River- turned to bloo

“The next plague assailed the persons of the Egyptians, and it appeared in the form of ulcerous eruptions upon the skin and flesh” (Jamieson 61). There seemed to be no explanation for the boils. These boils had to be a miracle sent down by the Lord. It was said that “the Egyptian magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were inflicted on them and on all Egyptians” (Ten Plagues). Up until this point, the magicians were able to duplicate all of the plagues. They were amazed and stupefied. Nonetheless, the boils can be explained just like all the other plagues. The flies, from the fourth plague, were not the common housefly so familiar to most people. They were actually a larger variety of stable fly. These flies bit the legs of the men and animals. These flies carried a virus that caused the boils on man and beast (Pennington).

The death of the frogs actually led to the third plague, gnats. The third plague, in succession, was described as “vast swarms of gnats that tormented both people and animals”(Execulink). The gnats are easily explained. It is commonly known that gnats are attracted to dead, decaying animals. The only way to get rid of the gnats would have been to get rid of what the gnats were eating. The problem arose from the fact that the ancient Egyptians could not just put the frogs in the trash. The Egyptians did not have curbside garbage pickup like today’s civilization.

The problem with the entire idea of the plagues is that there is truly no way to know without a doubt what happened. If it did occur, no one who was there is still alive to tell what actually happened. It all comes down to faith. If you believe in God, then you believe that the plagues were miracles. If you do not believe in God, then the plagues were just random acts of nature. They were all directly related to each other. It follows the same principal of a snowball going downhill. Each plague grew on the one before until they reached catastrophic proportions.

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