Evidence: The Plagues of Egypt

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The Ipuwer Papyrus is a manuscript dating back to the Lower and Middle Kingdom of Egypt.  It was written by Ipuwer, who can be confirmed to have lived.  His name is mentioned on a Dynasty XIX tomb relief decoration called, Daressy fragment.  The title given to Ipuwer was “Overseer of Singers”.  That makes sense because the Ipuwer Papyrus is considered a poem/song.  It describes dark and chaotic times, in ancient Egypt, that closely resemble the Exodus of the bible.  

Here are passages from Ipuwer Paprus and the Bible.

1       Ipuwer:  Lo the river is blood (p. 151)
Bible: …waters in the river were turned to blood (Exodus 7:20)

2       Ipuwer: There’s blood everywhere...one…thirst for water (p. 151)
Bible: …the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river (Exodus 7:24)

3       Ipuwer: Lo, trees are felled, branches stripped (p. 153)
Bible: …the hail brake every tree of the field (Exodus 9:25)

4       Ipuwer: Lo, grain is lacking on all sides (p. 155)
Bible: …the flax and the barley was smitten (Exodus 9:25)

5       Ipuwer: Birds find neither fruit nor herbs (p. 154)
Bible: …(the locusts) did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tress (Exodus 10:15)

6       Ipuwer: Groaning is throughout the land, mingled with laments (p. 152)
Bible: …there was a great cry in Egypt (Exodus 12:30)

7       Ipuwer: Lo, many dead are buried in the river, the stream is the grave, the tomb became stream              (p. 151).   
      Bible: For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn (Numbers 33:4).        

8       Ipuwer: All is ruin! (p. 152)
Bible: Egypt is destroyed (Exodus 10:7).

9       Ipuwer: And he who puts his brother in the ground is everywhere (p. 152)
Bible: Pharaoh rose in the night…all his servant…all the Egyptians…for there was not a house where there was not one dead (Exodus 12:30). 

It is either one of the greatest coincidences in history or Ipuwer is an actual eyewitness of the great plagues God cast on Egypt.  How amazing is it that we have a document from an individual who lived through such times.  What he must have seen and experienced. 

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