#170: Frogs, the Jersey Turnpike, and Dachau

Bekhor Shor on Parashat Shemot, Shemot/Exodus 8:10

An exit to the NJ Turnpike. Photo credit: Famartin via Wikimedia Commons, CCA-4.0

Shemot/Exodus 8:10

וַיִּצְבְּר֥וּ אֹתָ֖ם חֳמָרִ֣ם חֳמָרִ֑ם וַתִּבְאַ֖שׁ הָאָֽרֶץ׃

And they piled (the frogs) up in heaps, till the land stank.

The plague of the frogs has wreaked havoc on Egypt. Pharaoh begs Moses to request that God remove the frogs from Egypt. Moses does so…