IPUWER PAPYRUS The Ten Plagues of Egypt

IPUWER PAPYRUS The Ten Plagues of Egypt

The Ten Plagues -  From Egypt

by Rabbi Mordechai Becher

 In the early 19th Century a papyrus, dating from the end of the Middle Kingdom, was found in Egypt. It was taken to the Leiden Museum in Holland and interpreted by A.H. Gardiner in 1909. The complete papyrus can be found in the book Admonitions of an Egyptian from a heiratic papyrus in Leiden. The papyrus describes violent upheavals in Egypt, starvation, drought, escape of slaves (with the wealth of the Egyptians), and death throughout...  Read the full article.