The Bible. Are you intimidated at the thought of reading such a complicated book? Do you find it

daunting or delightful or both? Welcome to the club. The Bible Book Club where we read every word

of this great book and then study it together.

You guys ready for some plagues?

Some rounds of fighting here.

It's coming.

But last episode, we read Moses and Aaron's genealogy.

It focused on Aaron and the future importance of his

line as the priest. Moses is so proud of his big bro. We prepped for the plagues and there was an

overview of God's objectives and then we kicked off the beginning of God's campaign to free

the Israelites oppression from the Egyptians with a

warm-up snake battle and the first plague, the blood. Not much of a set up this week because we're

going to jump right into the fight between God and Pharaoh as he continues with five more plagues

and five more rounds in the ring. Round two, the plague of frogs in chapter eight. Then the Lord said to Moses,

go to Pharaoh and say to him, this is what the Lord says. Let my people go so that they may worship me.

If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. The Nile will team

with frogs. They will come up into your palace

and your bedroom and into your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people,

and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will come up on you and your people and all

your officials. Then the Lord said to Moses, tell Aaron, stretch out your hand with your staff

over the streams and canals and ponds and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt. So, Aaron stretched

out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land. But the magicians did the same things

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