The 10 plagues that Moses and Aaron and the Lord rained down on Egypt send me squirming in my devotional. All seem terrible, but some seem worse. Which ones do you consider the most awful?

Let’s remove the plague on the firstborn from our list. No house without someone dead lies beyond my imagination. But what about the other nine?

Waters turning into blood

Frogs

Gnats

Flies

Sudden sickness and death to livestock in the fields

Boils

Hail

Locusts

Darkness

Personally, frogs top my list. Boils also sound horrible, but frogs hopping in my oven, frogs sliming my bed, an amphibian peeking from my breakfast cereal? Then all those frogs die in my house and I have to find them and clean them out? Totally gross.

The Lord spared no creativity in reminding Pharaoh and Egypt and the Israelites and the nations around them who controls nature—and their fates.

Good for me to remember next time I see a frog.

Exodus 7-10 in reading the Bible cover to cover in 2022

Photo by David Clode