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#170: Frogs, the Jersey Turnpike, and Dachau

#170: Frogs, the Jersey Turnpike, and Dachau

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

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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…

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