The ninth plague comes without any audience before Pharaoh. It arrives without warning, just like the sixth and ninth plagues. So ends the third triad of plagues. 10:21. Then Yahweh said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand to the heavens so that there will be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness that may be felt.’ Yahweh’s power over the gods of Egypt is clearly displayed in this image. The ancient Egyptians regarded Amon-Ra, the personification of
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