 The Ten Plagues were designed “Measure for Measure” to punish the Egyptians.
1) Blood: The Egyptians hoped to hide the shame of their massacre of Jewish babies by drowning them in the Nile where no one would see the bodies
of the countless innocent victims. The first plague forced them to confront that they had made Jewish blood flood like water.
2) Frogs: A master exerts power over every aspect of a slave’s life, even how the slave lives in his home with his or her spouse. The slave has no rights of privacy.The frogs invaded every part of the lives of the Egyptian masters so that they would understand what their slaves had experienced over the years of their servitude.
3) Lice: The lice got under the skin of the Egyptian masters. Their bodies were wounded, much as they wounded the bodies of their slaves.
4) Wild Beasts: Wild animals burst into the homes of the Egyptians as a response to the masters who behaved as wild beasts by bursting into the homes of their Jewish slaves to kidnap and drown the baby boys.
5) The Cattle Plague: was a response for the Egyptians expropriating the cattle that had formely belonged to the Jews. God, as it were, expropriated the Egyptian cattle back through this plague, thus demonstrating the unjust enrichment would not be tolerated.
6) Boils: This plague left the Efgyptians feeling afflicted and looking disfigured, much like a beaten and downtrodden slave feels and looks.
Hail: God hurled the stones of abuse and the fiery flames of subjugation back at the Egyptians for acting similarly to the Jews.
8) Locusts: Consumed all the crops of the Egyptians not destroyed by the hail, crops that they had expropriated with the slave labor of the Jews in the fields of Egypt.
9) Darkness made palable to the Egyptians for a short period of time the psychological darkness that enveloped the Jewish People during the years of slavery.
10) The plague of the first-born as well as the drowning of the soldiers of the Egyptian legions at the Sea of Reeds was a payback in kind for the drowning of the Jewish males by the Egyptians. (Leading The Passover Journey by Nathan Laufer)
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