Izz 4/29
Three million people leave Eygpt, and we have no records of it by the
Egyptians. Strong evidence that it simply did not happen, or that the
numbers are highly exaggerated. Maybe at one time 300 people left,
and the tale later grew in the telling. But we have already swallowed
greater miracles than believing in the size of the exodus. At the start,
we had to believe that sticks turned into snakes and rivers to blood.
And we had to believe in the slapstick story, that it was not enough
that Aaron created a plague of frogs; Pharaohs's magicians created
a plague of even more frogs! I bet that made Pharaoh happy:
Exodus 8:6-7
So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt,
and the frogs came up and covered the land.
But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts;
they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
Yoel has pointed out that the Bible was pornographic; here we see it also
invented comedy. Pharaoh probably lined up his magicians and slapped
them all at once, like in the "Three Stooges", for being idiots and making
more frogs.
Izz