Freeing of the Slaves and their Pillage of Egypt as seen in Exodus 12: 31-36.Ipuwer 6:12 – “Forsooth, the children of the princes are cast out in the streets.” Ipuwer 4:3 – “Forsooth, the children of princes are dashed against the walls.” Ipuwer 3:14 – “Groaning is throughout the land, mingled with lamentations.”
Ipuwer 2:13 – He who places his brother in the ground is everywhere.
The Plague on Egyptian Livestock as found in Exodus 9: 1-7.Ipuwer 2:3 – Pestilence is throughout the land, blood is everywhere. The Plague of Blood as mentioned in Exodus 7: 14-25.The similarities to the account of Exodus are striking 4 : The manuscript itself was discovered in Memphis, Egypt and dates to the 13th Century BC or within a century or so after the Exodus plagues occurred. In the National Archaeological Museum in Leiden, Netherlands is found the Ipuwer Papyrus 3. Other ancient (and non-Egyptian) accounts have recently been uncovered that suggest the Hittites held the upper hand at the end of the engagement 2.Įven with this tendency to remove from historical memory troubling episodes, is there any Egyptian source that speaks to such cataclysmic events as the Biblical plagues? You would think with such upheaval, there would be some national memory or ancient source attesting to such devastation.
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If you had only these to go by, you may not get the full story. If you were to look at strictly Egyptian sources, you would think the Egyptians pulled off a spectacular victory over their Hittite foes. Egyptian accounts of the conflict are found in ancient papyri as well as in reliefs carved in temple walls (such as at Luxor). In fact, a replica of it can be found in the United Nations Building. The oldest treaty we know of in the world is the Treaty of Kadesh 1(ca.1269 CE), which was a peace agreement, signed between Egypt and the ancient Hittite Empire.
Truth be told, the Egyptians were renown for engaging in historical revisionism. Treaty of Kadesh (replica), United Nations The ninth plague is Darkness ( Exodus 10: 21-29) and the last one involves the Death of Firstborn Male Egyptians ( Exodus 11 and 12). Eventually, Hail and Fire falls from heaven ( Exodus 9: 13-35) followed by a swarm of Locusts ( Exodus 10: 1-20).
Boils befall the Egyptians ( Exodus 9: 8-12). An epidemic kills Livestock en masse ( Exodus 9: 1-7). Then Lice envelop the land ( Exodus 8: 16-19). This is followed by a plague of Frogs ( Exodus 7: 25-8:11). Look at the ancient Egyptian papyrus recording the plagues of Exodus Chapters 7-12 (called the Ipuwer Papyrus), now in the National Archeological Museum in Leiden, Netherlands.įirst, there is the plague of Blood ( Exodus 7: 14-25) as water sources (including the Nile) are turned into blood. Ipuwer is often put forward in popular literature as confirmation of the Biblical Exodus story, but these arguments ignore the many points on which Ipuwer contradicts Exodus. The poem is considered the world’s earliest known treatise on political ethics, suggesting that a good king is one who controls unjust officials, thus carrying out the will of the gods. In the Admonitions a man named Ipuwer complains that the world has been turned upside-down, and demands that the “Lord of All” remember his religious duties and destroy his enemies. It contains the Admonitions of Ipuwer, an incomplete literary work whose original composition is dated no earlier than the late Twelfth Dynasty (c.1991-1803 BCE). T he Ipuwer Papyrus (officially Papyrus Leiden I 344 recto) is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus made during the Nineteenth Dynasty, and now held in the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands.
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