A Scholarly Interpretation Of EXODUS 7:10 - 12:30

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able to drink its life-giving water. He turned then to his brother, Aaron, and said something undecipherable. Aaron then struck the Nile with his staff, and it turned into a red viscous liquid. I personally went and put some against my lips – it was blood! I fear that by doing this, Moses has shown that his God can outmatch Khnum, who is the guardian of the Nile Sources. Also, this old fool has overthrown the spirit of the Nile, Hapi. We have seen Hapi leaving the river in his form of a crocodile! The Underworld must be in disarray, as well, since the Nile is known to be Osiris’ bloodstream, the God of the Underworld. If I were any less shocked, I might note the irony apparent in Osiris’ bloodstream being turned into blood… Worse yet, all of the fish in the Nile have died… from the largest, known to us as “lates”, to one of the smaller, which we call “chromis”. Our Gods Neith and Hathor are charged with the protection of these two fish, respectively. The effects of the River being turned into blood are horrendous. Our civilization, the most advanced and strongest in the world, has come into being only because of the help that was given us by our Gods and the Nile River’s water. Pharaoh still would not listen – he had our sorcerers do the same thing as Aaron with the power of the Gods we still have remaining to us. However, this only serves to make matters worse – the river is still blood, and our people are left to digging wells alongside the bank, where fresh water can still be found. Our culture cannot survive much longer if the River is not turned back into fresh, clean water!
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It has been seven days since Moses last appeared to Pharaoh. Today, Moses and Aaron have come to say that if the Israelites are not set free to worship their own god, the entire country will be plagued with frogs. Frogs are sacred to us – they are symbols of the goddess Heqt, who assists women in childbirth. If an Egyptian is fo...