The answer isn’t found in the Bible—but in Greek philosophy.Excerpt:
There is no way to answer the question definitively of whether the ten-ness of the plagues in the exodus story is an incidental detail, an unintended byproduct of how the Torah was composed, or encodes some kind of hidden message as scholars like Zevit argue. But we can gain some insight by investigating what led early interpreters of the Bible to read meaning into the number of plagues.
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