As you contemplate not eating any bread for a week, we contemplate the 10 Plagues — those most metal of punishments ... frogs that came up out of the Nile river and covered the land of Egypt, ...

But the pharaoh still said no, so God sent ten plagues to Egypt. The final plague was the death of the first born son. Image caption, God told Moses that the Israelites should mark their doorposts ...