Exodus’ most devastating plague exposes the price of resistance to God — and why the loss of the firstborn struck at the very ...

Why is it that God killed all the firstborns in Egypt and didn't suffice with simply killing Pharaoh’s firstborn son? The ...

As noted before, Pharaoh’s continued hardness of heart inaugurates a cycle of events often called “the ten plagues on Egypt.” Exodus does use the word “plague” but it also calls them “signs and ...

Why does Moses step aside for Aaron during the first plagues? The answer reveals a profound Torah teaching about humility and gratitude.

Consider a proportionate divine response to extraordinary cruelty: A gradual, ratcheting pressure on a tyrant who refused every opportunity to stop the suffering (Vaera) ...

The Exodus and the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea were one and the same thing. One without the other is incomplete.