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The Fifth Plague: Livestock Diseased

1 Then the Lord said to Moses, a“Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may bserve Me.  
2 For if you arefuse to let them go, and still hold them,  
3 behold, the ahand of the Lord will be on your cattle in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the oxen, and on the sheep—a very severe pestilence.  
4 And athe Lord will make a difference between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt. So nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.” ’ ”  
5 Then the Lord appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.”
6 So the Lord did this thing on the next day, and aall the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the children of Israel, not one died.  
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The fifth plague struck many of the Egyptian gods and goddesses. The way it did this was because many of the types of livestock: cattle, rams, donkeys, horses, oxen, and camels were sacred to different gods, different cults. And it also struck directly at Pharaoh, who was thought to be a god himself, and the priesthood which was serving the gods. The reason that it struck at them, the Pharaoh and the priests, was that they had the largest herds in all of Egypt. So it made them broke.

Just a few examples here: The cow or bull was sacred to Apis, Ta, Ra, Hathor, Anubis, and Mintu. That is six different gods there. And the ram was sacred to Amon, and Knu. And I do not know what gods the camels and the donkeys were sacred to, but you can bet that there was a sacred to some cult in Egypt. And others of the plagues, we will not go through the other ones, they struck at still other Egyptian deities.

Excerpted from The Plagues of Egypt

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