The rats didnt actually get it, it was the fleas which were on the rats and the fleas carried the disease. It was just the rats that carried the flees.
The last plague was when God smote the Egyptian firstborn.
It was the death of the first born. This included Pharaoh but the plague skipped him to teach him a lesson.
plague
1) Turning of water into blood. 2) The second was the frogs. 3) The third plague gnats. 4) The fourth was the plague of flies. 5) The fifth plague livestock diseased. 6) The sixth plague boils. 7) The seventh plague thunder and hail. 8) The eighth plague was locusts. 9) It was darkness for three days. 10) The death of the first born.
killing the 1st born son of every household
I assume that you are referring to the Ten Plagues in Exodus. In order, they are: 1) The plague of water turning into blood 2) The plague of frogs 3) The plague of gnats 4) The plague of flies 5) The plague of livestock death 6) The plague of sores 7) The plague of hail 8) The plague of locusts 9) The plague of darkness 10) The plague of first-born death
The plague that killed Egypt's firstborn was the tenth and final plague in the biblical story of Exodus. It was known as the plague of the death of the firstborn, where all firstborn children in Egypt, including animals, were said to have died. This event ultimately compelled Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery.
There was an epidemic of bubonic plague in 1564, the year Shakesepeare was born. Other epidemics also hit from time to time, influenza being common.
Killing of the first-born son ('Makas Bechorot")
The first-born of the Egyptians (Exodus ch.11 and ch.12).
After his son died in the Tenth Plague (death of the first-born), Pharaoh "expelled" the Israelites from Egypt (Exodus ch.12), essentially granting the demands of Moses.
william gilbert was born on 24 may 1544 and unfortunatly died of the plague on30 november 1602