A brief preliminary explanation of some of these plagues will be in place, after which the following points will have special attention:
1. That these ten plagues on Egypt were really supernatural, miraculous.
2. That several of them were very specially adapted to Egypt.
3. The case of the magicians.
4. The divine purpose and policy in shaping the demand made upon Pharaoh to let the people go.
5. The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart.
6. The final result as shown in the last of the ten plagues.
The ten plagues in their historical order stand thus:
1. Water turned to blood (Ex. 7: 14–25);