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The Second Plague: Frogs

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Let My people go, athat they may serve Me.  
2 But if you arefuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all your territory with bfrogs.  
3 So the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into your house, into your abedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your servants, on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls.  
4 And the frogs shall come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.” ’ ”
5 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Say to Aaron, a‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”  
6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and athe frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.  
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This also struck at Egyptian religion. The frog was the symbol of the goddess Heket. She was the goddess of procreation and childbirth. Guess where he hit this time? Sex. They would give offerings to Heket so that they could have children, and their livestock too.

You understand how they got the frog as the symbol of procreation. Frogs are prolific like rabbits. They put out thousands of eggs, and all these little tadpoles come out. It is interesting also that this plague also struck at the Nile in an indirect way, because the frogs lived in the Nile, the god of the Nile produced the frogs. And it was the frog that they thought blessed procreation. So here again God was striking at their religion right at the base of it.

Excerpted from The Plagues of Egypt

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