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Exodus 9 strikes Egypt’s livestock with disease before Israel’s deliverance. The Apocalypse of Abraham echoes this plague among its final judgments on the nations, extending an Egyptian punishment into the future rescue of Abraham’s descendants.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Exodus 9:3
Hebrew Bible
2 For if you refuse to release them and continue holding them, 3 then the hand of the Lord will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks. 4 But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’” 5 The Lord set an appointed time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the land.” 6 And the Lord did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died. 7 Pharaoh sent representatives to investigate, and indeed, not even one of the livestock of Israel had died. But Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the people.
Apocalypse of Abraham 30:5
Pseudepigrapha, Apocalypses
2 And He said to me: "What is desired in your heart I will tell you, because you have sought to see the ten plagues which I have prepared for the heathen, and have prepared beforehand at the passing over of the twelfth hour of the earth. 3 Hear what I divulge to you, so shall it come to pass: 4 the first (is) pain of great distress; the second, conflagration of many cities; 5 the third, destruction and pestilence of animals; the fourth, hunger of the whole world and of its people; 6 the fifth by destruction among its rulers, destruction by earthquake and the sword; the sixth, multiplication of hail and snow; 7 the seventh, the wild beasts will be their grave; the eighth, hunger and pestilence will alternate with their destruction; 8 the ninth, punishment by the sword and flight in distress; the tenth, thunder and voices and destructive earthquake.
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Notes and References
“... Cf. the fifth Egyptian plague (murrain among the cattle, Ex. ix. 1 ff.). ...”
Box, G. H., with J. I. Landsman
The Apocalypse of Abraham
(p. PDF 53) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918
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