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At one level, it is a battle between Pharaoh and Moses, two human beings. At another it is a contest between the man who believes he is a god and God Himself. The Egyptians worshipped nature \u2013 the combination of sun and water that made the Nile delta at that time one of the most fertile places on earth. Each of the first nine plagues is designed to show both the Israelites and the Egyptians that nature is not the ultimate reality. It can be a blessing; it can also be a curse. One by one the familiar features of the Egyptian ecology are overturned \u2013 to teach the Egyptians that one cannot worship nature at the cost of subjugating Man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was essential for both the Israelites and the Egyptians to understand that this was the work not of man, but of God. 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