Moses was a national liberation leader, determined to free his people from slavery, oppression and the pervasive threat of genocide. The uprising was fierce, relying on a state-of-the art arsenal ...

Ten plagues and a betrayal—how Moses saved the Hebrew slaves. The Prophet defied his adopted family to free the slaves in Egypt. A portrait of the Prophet Moses, created in 1645.

As the Passover story tells it, after Pharaoh refuses Moses’ entreaties to let the enslaved Israelites go free, God sends a series of ten plagues to pressure the Egyptian ruler.

Before he parted whatever sea it was he parted, the Bible describes Moses and his brother Aaron delivering 10 plagues on the people of Egypt. The Nile turns to blood, all the fish die, frogs are ...