For example, turning the waters of the Nile into blood plunged a dagger into the heart of the god of the Nile (Ex. 7:14–25). The plague of frogs declared that YHWH was sovereign, not Heket, the frog goddess of childbirth (Ex. 8:1–15). God struck down the livestock of Egypt to show that Hathor, the sky goddess depicted as a cow, had no power over God (Ex. 9:1–7). And when God sent darkness upon the land, it taunted Pharaoh, who was supposed to be the incarnation of the sun god, Re (Ex. 10:21–29).
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