How long were the plagues

Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 9 months ago. Active 4 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Improve this question. Very similar: judaism. Plague of darkness was six days. Rashi Bo Thick darkness in which they did not see each other for those three days, and another three days of darkness twice as dark as this, so that no one rose from his place — sabbahillel.

Add a comment. For example, I read somewhere that it would only take a few days for a swarm of millions of locusts the 8th plague to destroy every bit of green vegetation in sight.

This being said, if we make the average length of each plague say 4 days, we have a total of 40 days that the plagues lasted. This is also a Biblical number that corresponds with the lengths of other punishments i. The biggest problem we have is not knowing the length of time between the different plagues.

My feeling is that it was not a lot of time. A few other facts can help us in making this determination. I believe that the timeframe between the 7th plague hail and the 10th plague death of the firstborn was no more than a few months. This means that it shortly followed the hail, still before the wheat and spelt were in bloom probably in late February or early March.

We also know that the last plague fell either in late March or early April, because that is the time of the Jewish Passover, when God passed over the houses of the Israelites and did not kill their firstborn because they had the blood of the Passover Lamb covering the doorframes of their houses Ex Answers 3 Discuss 5.

Two days are mentioned for bringing and removing them Ex. Army Moses was eighty years old when he first appeared before Pharaoh after God had called him to lead Israel out of Egypt Exodus Israel spent forty years in the wilderness before entering Canaan Numbers Moses was years old when he died Deuteronomy Therefore, the combined plagues must have consumed less than a year.

The Bible specifically records Exodus that seven days elapsed between the first plague the Nile turning to blood and the second plague frogs.

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