![]() the hand of the Lord is upon the cattle which is in the field. PAPYRUS 6:1 No fruit nor herbs are found. And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground." the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number. The plague is described in Psalms 105:34-35 in these words: ". The statement that the crops of the fields were destroyed in a single day ("which yesterday was seen") excludes drought, the usual cause of a bad harvest only hail, fire, or locusts could have left the fields as though after "the cutting of flax". The land is left over to its weariness like the cutting of flax. PAPYRUS 6:3 Forsooth, grain has perished on every side.ĥ:12 Forsooth, that has perished which yesterday was seen. there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the fields, through all the land of Egypt. To it belong (by right) wheat and barley, geese and fish.ĮXODUS 10:15. The entire palace is without its revenues. Like the Book of Exodus (9:31-32 and 10:15), the papyrus relates that no duty could be rendered to the crown for wheat and barley and as in Exodus 7:21 ("And the fish that was in the river died"), there was no fish for the royal storehouse. It was after the next plague that the fields became utterly barren. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they were not grown up. the flax and the barley was smitten for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. ![]() The fire which consumed the land was not spread by human hand but fell from the skies.īy this torrent of destruction, according to Exodus,ĮXODUS 9:31-32. ![]() PAPYRUS 2:10 Forsooth, gates, columns and walls are consumed by fire. there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous. Fire spread all over the land.ĮXODUS 9:23-24. This portent was accompanied by consuming fire. and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field. The destruction in the fields is related in these words:ĮXODUS 9:25. PAPYRUS 3:10-13 That is our water! That is our happiness! What shall we do in respect thereof? All is ruin! The fish in the lakes and the river died, and worms, insects, and reptiles bred prolifically. PAPYRUS 2:10 Men shrink from tasting - human beings, and thirst after water.ĮXODUS 7:24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink for they could not drink of the water of the river. This water was loathsome, and the people could not drink it. all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.ĮXODUS 7:20. PAPYRUS 2:5-6 Plague is throughout the land. He made the water stand firm like a wall. In the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.ġ3 He divided the sea and led them through I will utter hidden things, things from of old-Ĥ We will not hide them from their children Ħ so the next generation would know them,Īnd they in turn would tell their children.Ĩ They would not be like their forefathers-ĩ The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows,ġ2 He did miracles in the sight of their fathers Here are comparisons made by Immanuel Velikovsky & George Konig (below the Palm 78) : The Papyrus Ipuwer (7:1-2) records only that the pharaoh was lost under unusual circumstances "that have never happened before".ĭue to the age of the papyrus, it cannot be claimed that the papyrus purposefully copies the Bible, the book of Exodus. ![]() Because the introductory passages of the papyrus is missing the king or pharoah is unnamed. It is published today and is a 17 page book. Gardiner under the title, "The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden". In 1909 the text, translated, was published by Alan H. The face (recto) and the back (verso) are differentiated by the direction of the fiber tissues the story of Ipuwer is written on the face, on the back is a hymn to a deity. Both the Exodus and Thera interpretations assume that the poem records a historical event, which is disputed by many in Egyptology. Resides now in a museum of Leiden in the Netherlands. A man named Anastasi discovered the Papyrus in the area of Memphis, near the pyramids of Saqqara in Egypt. Ipuwer Papyrus ~ An Egyptian Eyewitness to the Exodus ~ Just as the date of the Exodus is debated for centuries, the Ipuwer Papyrus is placed from 1900 B.C. ![]()
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