Fertility symbols, Notre Dame fire, militant secularism, and the number of plagues

Exodus 7:14-25 is the entry point for the series of ten plagues God sent upon the land of Egypt and its people for pharaoh’s defiance of his command to free his people, Israel. This episode includes an introduction to how scholars talk about the plagues and how that discussion translates to the first plague, turning the Nile to blood.

Figure 3 Plagues as Decreation