Exodus 19

Exodus 20

In this episode, the people complain about the lack of food, so God sends them quails and manna from heaven. They complain about the lack of water, and God has Moses strike a rock with his staff to make water come out. Then they fight a war with Amalek, and God makes them successful when Moses's hand is up, but they are defeated when his hand is down. When Moses was too tired to do that, Aaron and Hur hold his hands up all day so the Israelites can defeat the Amalekites.

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Moses parts the Red Sea so the Israelites can cross on dry land. Then God lets the water rush back to drown the Egyptians - after taking off their chariot wheels to make sure they couldn't escape.

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God finally finishes up his ten plagues by killing all of the Egyptian firstborn children and animals. He also devised a clever way to avoid killing the Israelite children - by having them kill a lamb and wipe it's blood on their doorposts. That way, when he saw the blood, he'd know not to kill the firstborn children in their houses.

After God finished child-killing, the Israelites left Egypt after stealing the Egyptians' jewels, silver, and gold.

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God continues to send plagues on the Egyptians: he kills their farm animals and sends boils on man and beast.

Then he took a little break and hardened the Pharaoh's heart again.

The episode ends with God sending three more plagues: hail, locusts, and three days of darkness.

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The plagues continue in this episode, with the second plague of frogs. But the Pharaoh's magicians knew how to do frogs, too.

The third plague did the trick, though. Lice! The magicians couldn't do lice, so they knew it was done by the finger of God.

The fourth plague was flies, and the magicians didn't even try to do this one. How could they compete with the Lord of the Flies!

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Moses tells God that he can't be his spokesman because he has uncircumcised lips. But God says, that okay, his brother Aaron can speak for him.

So God teaches them some magic tricks, and they're off to see the Pharaoh.

When they arrive they do the water to blood trick (the first plague of Egypt), but the Pharaoh's magicians know that trick, too. Shucks!

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The Bible is filled with strange stories. But this is one of the strangest.

It all takes place in just three verses, so it's easy to miss - or skip over, saying, "I don't know what the hell that was, but I think I'll just keep reading and not think about it too much."

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In this episode, God appears to Moses in a burning bush and teaches him some magic tricks.

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The baby Moses floats down a river and is rescued by the Pharaoh's daughter. Sometime later, he murders an Egyptian, flees to Midian, and marries a woman named Zipporah.

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