What was the date that 10 plagues started?

Answer 1

The Bible says that God brought down ten terrible plagues on the nation of Egypt during the time of Moses and just before the Exodus, which is said to have taken place approximately 1440 BCE.

We can expect the economic and social impact of these plagues to have been so dramatic that a good deal of evidence would be found in the Egyptian archaeological record. However, nothing has been found, either in the written records or in artefacts from the period, and the Egyptian economy continued on as if nothing had happened, not only through the fifteenth century but for centuries to come. The only rational conclusion seems to be that the ten biblical plagues never really happened.

Answer 2

Bible/Tanakh/Old Testament: The ten plagues

Various dates in the 15th and 16th centuries BCE have been given for this series of events which happened immediately prior to the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.

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Answer 3

Tradition places the Ten Plagues in 1312 BCE.

Professor John van Seters (Journal of Egyptian Archaeology no. 50) discusses the evidence of the Exodus. The Ipuwer papyrus describes Egypt's experiencing the Plagues ("Pestilence is throughout the land....the river is blood, death is not scarce...there is no food...neither fruit nor herbs can be found...barley has perished...all is ruin...the statues are burned"). The plagues were also described by ancient historians, including Herodotus and Diodorus. The Exodus is mentioned by Strabo, Berosus, Artapanus, Numenius, Justin, and Tacitus.See the link:

Evidence of the Exodus

In any case, few nations are content to record embarrassing setbacks honestly. Even today, British and American textbooks describe the American Revolution in very different ways.

An example of the above principle:

The destruction of Sennacherib's army at the walls of Jerusalem was denied by secular theorists, because the Assyrians made no mention of it. But then it was found that Berosus and Herodotus both state that Sennacherib's military campaign in Judea ended in plague and defeat. It should not surprise us that the Assyrians themselves didn't record their own losses.

It is only the Hebrew Bible, because of its Divine origin, that exposes the faults of its own people and even magnifies them.

In no other religious text can one find such openness. None of the Israelites were immune to strong criticism: Abraham (Genesis 16:5), Reuben (Gen.ch.35), Simeon and Levi (Gen.ch.34 and 49), Judah (Gen.ch.38), Joseph's brothers (Gen.ch.37), Moses (Numbers ch.20), Aaron (Exodus 32:2-4), Samson (Judges 14:1-3), Eli's sons (1 Samuel 2:12), Samuel's sons (1 Samuel 8:1-3), Saul (1 Samuel ch.15), David (2 Samuel ch.11-12), Solomon (1 Kings ch.11), and many others.

See also:

Is the Hebrew Bible accurate?

Refuting Bible-criticism

Moses was a real person

Answer 4

There is no record of the ten plagues in the Egyptian historical record, so the only source of information regarding the Exodus and the ten plagues that preceded it is in the Bible. On the other hand, the clear consensus of scholars is that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible, and therefore no plagues as described in the Bible.

The Bible gives the date of the Exodus from Egypt as 1444 BCE. The plagues, if indeed they happened, would have occurred shortly before this.

Because of considerable historical difficulties with Exodus occurring in the fifteenth century BCE, some Christians say that it really occurred around 1250 BCE, shortly before the Israelites began to appear in the Palestinian hinterland.

In a similar way, some modern Jews say that Moses must have led the Israelites out of Egypt around 1313 BCE, although many mainstream Jewish sources continue to accept the traditional date.

Answer 5

The ten plagues started after Pharaoh refused to listen to god servant Moses and his brother Aaron.

Answer 6

The 10 Plagues happened when they did not react to the complainment for freedom from Moses and Aaron. God was protecting them by cursing the Egyptians with plagues.

Answer 7

The famous ten plaques that affected Egypt was at the time of Moses and the pharaoh at that time was expected to be Ramses.

Answer 8

Some have dated this time frame to be circa 1446 B.C..