Passover

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Passover

Elise Trevisan

4/18/2012

University of Phoenix

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Passover is a Jewish celebration that accommodates the story of the Exodus. Exodus stood for the time in which the Ancient Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. The bibles narrative about the Exodus explains that God helped the children of Israel escape slavery in Egypt by inflicting 10 plagues upon the Egyptians before the Pharaoh would release his Israelites slaves. The first of the biblical plaques was Water to Blood; the Lord gave the command for Moses to Aaron that he must take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone (Gill, 2012). The Jewish religion believe that blood stands for the creation of life, the scarification of animals consists of the blood draining entirely from the animal in order for the Jewish to eat it. Thus also included in the meaning of kosher food.

The second Plague, the Lord punished the Egyptians with the infestation of frogs. The Lord punished the Egyptians with millions of frogs in every Orphism of their homes, and land for not releasing the Israeli children (Gill, 2012). The third plague was gnats or lice, the bible reads ;8:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, “Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt”. After the Egyptians did not concur the severity of the Lord he cursed the Egyptians with a four plague which included swarms of flies, which consumed their homes and land. After the flies the Egyptians woke to find their livestock diseased. Thus being the fifth...