The Bible In Paintings: LET MY PEOPLE GO! PLAGUES! Part 1

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

E X O D U S
CHAPTERS 4-8

Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, and Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, and they believed. AND WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THE LORD WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THEM AND HAD SEEN THEIR MISERY, THEY BOWED DOWN AND WORSHIPED.

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JAMES TISSOT
"Moses and Aaron Talk to the People"

Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘LET MY PEOPLE GO, so that they may hold a festival to me in the desert.’ ”

Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will NOT let Israel go.”

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PIETRO DELLA VECCHIA
"Moses and Aaron with the Pharaoh"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Moses Speaks to Pharaoh"

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CECIL B. DEMILLE
"Moses and Pharaoh"

		AARON'S STAFF

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

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BENJAMIN WEST
"Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh"

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"Aaron's Rod Swallows All the Other Rods"

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JEAN LE PAUTRE
"Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh"

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GERARD HOET
"The Rods of Moses and the Magicians Turned into Serpents"

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"Rod of Aaron Turned into a Serpent"

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MARC CHAGALL
"God Turns Moses’ Staff Into a Serpent"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh"

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"Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh"

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NICOLAS POUSSIN
"Moses Turning Aaron's Staff into a Serpent"

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JAMES TISSOT
"The Rod of Aaron Devours the Other Rods"

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CECIL B. DEMILLE
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Plague #1:
BLOODY NILE

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the water. Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: LET MY PEOPLE GO, so that they may worship me in the desert. But until now you have not listened.

‘This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.’ ”

Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.

But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said. Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.

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JAN SYMONSZ PYNAS
"Aaron Transforming the Water of the Nile into Blood"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Water Is Changed Into Blood"

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CECIL B. DEMILLE
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RIDLEY SCOTT
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"The First Plague: Blood"

		Plague #2: FROGS

Seven days passed after the LORD struck the Nile. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials.’ ”

So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land.

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD.”

After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD about the frogs. And the LORD did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields. But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

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GERARD JOLLAIN
"The Plague of Frogs"

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"Second Plague of Egypt (Frogs)"

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"The Plague of Frogs"

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G.N.PETROV
"Second Plague of Egypt: Frogs"

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RIDLEY SCOTT
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New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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M O S E S
MOSES IN HIS ARK, 1
MOSES IN HIS ARK, 2
GOD PREPARES MOSES
MOSES MEETS GOD: BURNING BUSH, 1
MOSES MEETS GOD: BURNING BUSH, 2

LET MY PEOPLE GO!
LET MY PEOPLE GO! 9 PLAGUES, 1
LET MY PEOPLE GO! 9 PLAGUES, 2
THE LORD PASSES OVER
EXODUS! ISRAEL LEAVES EGYPT
PARTING THE RED SEA!
ISRAELITES REJOICING IN SONG!

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Good Morning Dan. :-)

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Is smoked frog any good?

(sleep with one eye open ( --- )

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Watch out for the froggies, Mary-Lou! EEEEEK!

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*sigh*

HMTL strikes again

sleep with one eye open ( <.o> --- )

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Try it and then let us know....

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“If at first you don’t succeed....”

[etabeta]

Good morning! Tissot and Dore’ and of course the scenes from Cecil B. DeMille movie.

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Wise choices all, Alba.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

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ben

[NorthStarOkie]

It is interesting that each plague was directed at one of the Egyptian gods.
The Nile renewed the fertility of the soil at each yearly flood, turning to blood defeated that god.
Some gods were worshiped to keep things from happening. The locust, frogs, for example. Those gods were to keep locusts and frogs out of Egypt.
Three days of darkness defeated the sun and moon gods.
The ultimate god, Pharaoh, was defeated when he could not save his firstborn son and later when he was drowned.

[smokingfrog]

If there had been any Cajuns in Egypt, they would have thought they hit the jackpot.

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Well-noted.

As you proceeded through the succession, this vision popped into my noggin: God as a Sniper, picking them off one after the other. As Valdez replied when El Segundo observed that he had counted his kills, "You'd better."

My Bible reading this morning was Isaiah 40-46, which features a wonderful passage on God eloquently and hilariously deriding idol-makers, who use half the log in their fire and fashion the other half into their idol. Of all human follies, God reserves the most scorn for idolatry.

[delchiante]

Great depictions.
Can’t be easy to paint all those frogs..

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One froggy Two froggy Three froggy Four