[031-1] The Ten Plagues - Bible Verse Activity Worksheets

When Moses and Aaron told Pharaoh that the Lord wanted His people to stop being slaves and to leave Egypt, Pharaoh became angry and treated the Israelites even more harshly.  One after another the Lord sent ten different plagues upon the Egyptian people. Sometimes Pharaoh tried to bargain with Moses but, then, each time Moses caused a plague to stop, Pharaoh’s heart would harden and he would say the people could not go.

“The Lord said to Moses, ‘When you get back to Egypt, do all the miracles.  I have given you the power to do them.  Show them to the king of Egypt. But I will make the king very stubborn.  He will not let the people go.  Then say to the king: ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.  And I told you to let my son go.  Let him go so he may worship me. But you refused to let Israel go.  So I will kill your firstborn son.’”  

God wanted his people out of Egypt and out of bondage.  Pharaoh sometimes attempted to bargain about some Israelites leaving and some remaining but God did not want some of his people he wanted all of them.  Additionally, he did not want them to leave with nothing.  He expected them to leave with the wealth they deserved.