IPUWER 2:10 Forsooth, gates, columns and walls are consumed by fire.ġ0:3-6 Lower Egypt weeps… The entire palace is without its revenues. Blood is everywhere.Ģ:10 Men shrink from tasting – human beings, and thirst after waterģ:10-13 That is our water! That is our happiness! What shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin.ĮXODUS 7:20 …all the waters of the river were turned to blood.ħ:21 …there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt …and the river stank.ħ:24 And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink for they could not drink of the water of the river. IPUWER 2:5-6 Plague is throughout the land. But it is worthy of remarking that this ancient Ipuwer Papyrus contains many of the plagues on Egypt which led to the Exodus described in the Bible. This writer has no idea when the Admonitions of Ipuwer, as it is called, was written. Others say it is a copy or a copy of a copy made centuries earlier and still others claim it was written by a man who was an eye-witness to this destruction of Egypt. Some date it to the 1900’s BC, others to the 1500’s BC. The Ipuwer Papyrus, officially called Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto
It is in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands. There is disagreement among some about the date of the Exodus (1400’s or 1200’s), but none doubt the Exodus as an historical fact.Ī papyrus (below) was discovered in Egypt in the early 1800’s called the Ipuwer Papyrus. The historicity of the Exodus from Egypt is a seminal belief among Jews, Muslims and Christians. All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, Go, you and all the people who follow you! After that I will leave.’ Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.” Exodus 11:4-8 Wall painting of the Exodus, the Hand of God and the Crossing of the Red Sea in the Dura Europos Synagogue, c. Then Pharaoh, you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt-worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. At the end of the Tenth plague, the death of all the first-born, the Jews were forced out of Egypt: “So Moses said, ‘This is what the Lord says: About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Moses and his brother Aaron in front of Pharaoh-1854 engraving Death of Firstborn-Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,1836-1912
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But Pharaoh was stubborn and would not let his free labor force go. God sent them a man, Moses, who would lead them out of slavery and into The Promised Land. The Hebrews had been in slavery in Egypt for four hundred years. The hieroglyphs on this wall painting read: “captives whom his majesty brought for the works of the temple of Amon” and “the taskmaster says to the builders: ‘The rod is in my hand be not idle.’” Other Egyptian texts mention brick quotas and a lack of straw, just as Exodus 5 does.
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The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, ‘Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.’ And Pharaoh’s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, ‘Why haven’t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?’” Exodus 5:1,2 6-14 Wall relief showing Semitic laborers in Egypt making bricks with clay and straw (15th Century BC). Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.’ So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw. They are lazy that is why they are crying out, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.’ Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, ‘This is what Pharaoh says: I will not give you any more straw. “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 wilderness.’ 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’….That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people: “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks let them go and gather their own straw. But require them to make the same number of bricks as before don’t reduce the quota.
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