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He then methodically terrorizes the Egyptian populace. He turns their drinking water to blood, fouls the land with a plague of frogs, sends clouds of gnats to torment man and beast, fills fields and homes with locusts, kills their livestock, infects them with boils and sores, rains down hail to destroy their remaining crops the torments go on for pages. After each round, Yahweh again "hardens Pharaoh's heart." The awfulness crescendos until we reach the climax: the death of each firstborn male, no matter how young or helpless, even the firstborn of the cattle.
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