The god Yahweh became angry and endowed Moses with the ability of a miracle worker, and made his brother Aaron an interpreter (translator) and messenger. The brothers appeared before Pharaoh, demanded from the Egyptian ruler to release their people, but the pharaoh only increased the hardships.
TEN EXECUTIONS OF THE EGYPTIAN
Then Yahweh got angry, made Moses “God to Pharaoh” and allowed him to perform his unimaginable miracles.
Sent on the Egyptians ten "executions of the Egyptians." The water of the fertile Nile turns blood-colored and becomes undrinkable. Egypt is filled with hordes of terrible toads. countless clouds of gnats and angry dog flies. There is an incredible death of livestock, painful purulent abscesses appear on the body of animals and people.
A devastating hail falls on the crops, locusts swoop down visibly and invisibly, and "tangible darkness" hangs over the country. All over Egypt, first-borns die, excluding newborns in Jewish homes. It was a disaster.
And then Pharaoh decided: you need to give in, let the Jews go home, to their homeland. But before that, he decided to arrange a kind of magical competition between Moses, Aaron and his Egyptian magicians. You play Moses and Aaron a contest - their people will leave in peace from the land of Egypt.
Before the battle, Yahweh instructed his prophet: "Tell your brother Aaron, let him throw the rod before Pharaoh, and he will become a serpent." Aaron threw down his rod before Pharaoh, and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh ordered his magicians, the sorcerers and the Egyptian sorcerers to do the same with his spells. Each of them threw down his wand, but Aaron's wand consumed all their wands.
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JEWISH Sorcery
Jewish sorcery overpowered Egyptian sorcery
The Jews came out of the land of Egypt, came to the Red Sea - how to go further, not on the water? Moses the magician also showed his miraculous art here. He stretched out his hand, and the sea parted, then they watered further, as on dry land, and went out to the Sinai desert.
For a long time they wandered through the hot desert, tormented and not knowing where to go next. The Jews began to complain about God - why, they say, he brought them out of Egyptian captivity, it was not so bad for them there. Then the Lord became angry, and sent poisonous snakes against the unreasonable people. They were frightened and began to ask Moses to intercede for them, to deliver them from the punishment of the Lord. Having resorted to magic again, Moses rescued his people, made them a copper serpent, which did not sting anyone.
Moses resorted to magic more than once. When the Jewish people began to worship the golden calf (the gilded idol of the bull), Moses rebelled, burned the golden calf in the fire, rubbed it into dust, scattered it on water and gave the children of Israel to drink so that they could be cleansed of the filth. But, as they say, God is God, and Caesar is Caesar. Moses and Aaron, of course, could engage in magic, but any sorcery was strictly forbidden to ordinary people.
But, despite the threats of the authorities, against all the prohibitions, the Jews enthusiastically indulged in magic and witchcraft, especially fortune telling by the entrails of animals, by the flight of birds, by the patterns of cobwebs, in order to find out what this enticing, but so unpredictable future holds.
Subsequently, in the Middle Ages, all the inquisitors, who committed their wild follies and sent witches and sorcerers to the fire, constantly referred to the Bible in their defense. If it says that sorcerers exist, then what, in fact, are we talking about? Who dares to contradict Scripture?