1491 BC · AM 2513 · Egypt and Exodus
Darkness covers Egypt; the ninth plague
Thick darkness covered Egypt for three days, but the Israelites had light where they lived. Pharaoh offered to let the people go without their livestock; Moses refused, and Pharaoh drove him away (Exodus 10:21-29).
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📖 Exodus 10:21–23
21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.” 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days. 23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
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