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Ok, I know I'm going to get some flack for this, but this comic is not biblically accurate, but that is the joke.


Here is the real text from the part in Exodus where Moses turns the rod into the snake.

¶And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.

10 ¶And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
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Pretty cool.

Obviously, it was written at a time when the Hebrews acknowledged the other gods existed and had power*, only not so much as Yahweh. I remember an episode when they invade Moab and since the king of Moab sacrificed his elder son to his god the Hebrews were put to flight.

* it's an attitude that persisted for quite a long time since after the Babylonians took Jerusalem refugees were angry at Jeremiah for making them turn away from mild gods who would have helped in favor of Yahweh who punished them.

I read the serpent business was a common trick of the egyptian priests: they knew how to catch a snake behind the head so it would become stiff and immobile like a rod, and throw them down at leisure. I never tried that one LOL
I don't know how they did that trick to turn water into blood though… ( maybe they just added some instant color… )