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Was there a coup in Egypt during the biblical Exodus?
Pharaoh dying in the firstborn plague would lead to the immediate crowing that night of a new Pharaoh. This is further supported by the word “rose”: “And Pharaoh rose up in the night.”
MODERN-DAY ‘coup’: Egyptian pro-democracy supporters gather in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011, during the Arab Spring.
(photo credit:
Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/File/Reuters
)
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GOL KALEV
MAY 5, 2023 20:07
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