Updated: Update: 2020.04.09

עֶשֶׂר הַמַּכּוֹת

The 10 מַכּוֹת

Casting scientific light on the 10 Smitings illuminates a naturally-related chain of natural events. When these natural events are considered within their appropriate seasons, they are found to be in their natural order; and to have occurred beginning in spring and culminating the next spring.

10 Mak•ōtꞋ pinned to the ancient Hebrew calendar

• Pâ•râsh•âhꞋ וָאֵרָא

1. Mak•âhꞋ #1 — דָֽם

   Early Spring (≈Mar.), ca. B.C.E. +1
   (the year before the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ)

   "Red Tide" Turns Parts Of The Nile Blood-Red

   (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 7.14-24 )

   "Red Tide" freshwater Euglenophyte algal bloom scum, Univ. of Arkansas, (fig. 8)

   Red Tide freshwater algal bloom scum, Swannie Ponds, Dundee, Scotland

   
   

2. Mak•âhꞋ #2 — צְפַרְדְּעִֽים

   Mid-Spring (≈Apr.), ca. B.C.E. +1
   (the year before the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ) (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 7.25–8.11 )

   Bufo toad

   

3. Mak•âhꞋ #3 — כִּנִּ֖ים

   Late Spring (≈May), ca. B.C.E. +1
   (the year before the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ) Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 8.12-15 )

   Magnified Culicoides (biting midge, sandfly). Size of adult female is about 1½ mm.

   

4. Mak•âhꞋ #4 — עָרֹ֑ב

   Early Summer (≈Jun), ca. B.C.E. +1
   (the year before the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ) (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 8,16-32 )

   Horsefly, female (Diptera Tabanidae Haemato­pota pluvialis) – females (only) are voracious blood-feeders and vector for anthrax bac­teria and surra protozoa; infecting humans, sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, horses, camels, etc. (photo: 2011, Mucha Fero, diptera.info)

   Stable fly (Diptera Musci­dae Stomoxys calcitrans, ≈10mm long) – biting blood-feeders; vector for Glanders (Farcy) & Anthrax

   
   

5. Mak•âhꞋ #5 — דֶּ֖בֶר

   Mid-Summer (≈Jul), ca. B.C.E. +1
   (the year before the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ) "On horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, and tzōn"  (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 9.1-7 )

   Glanders (Farcy) infected horse in India, 2010 (archive.indianexpress.com)

   

6. Mak•âhꞋ #6 — ( אֲבַעְבֻּעֹ֖ת) שְׁחִין

   Late-Summer (≈Aug), ca. B.C.E. +1
   (the year before the Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ) "On man and beast"  (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 9.8-12 )
   

7. Mak•âhꞋ #7 — בָּרָ֖ד

   Late Winter (≈Feb), ca. B.C.E.
   (The Secular Calendar Year Of The Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ) (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 9.13-35 )

   Hail northern Israel 2014.11 (ayalim.org)

   

• Pâ•râsh•âhꞋ בֹּא

8. Mak•âhꞋ #8 — אַרְבֶּ֖ה

   Early Spring (≈1^st Week Of Mar.), ca. B.C.E.
   Year Of The Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ Attracted By Hail-Destroyed Spring Barley Crop, Impending Famine (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 10.1-20 )

   Locust swarm, arriving in Egypt from Sudan (Food and Agricul­ture Organiza­tion of the U.N., Rome, Italy; www.fao.org, 2004.03.02).

   

9. Mak•âhꞋ #9 — חֹ֖שֶׁךְ

   Early Spring (≈2^nd Week Of Mar.), ca. B.C.E.
   Year Of The Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ (Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 10.21-29 ) Destroys (Edible) Locusts—Exacerbating Famine

   Typical severe sandstorm in the mideast (Kuwait),

   

10. Mak•âhꞋ #10 — בְּכ֣וֹר

    Early Spring, Israel's Lunar Calendar 01.14 ca. 2216
    ca. B.C.E. .03.24 — The Yᵊtzi•âhꞋ Shᵊm•ōtꞋ 11.1–12.36  Suggests: Par•ōhꞋ Decreed Sacrifice Of Male-Firstborns (Man & Livestock)

    Impressionist A•qeid•âhꞋ, Heavenly Observers (©1990, Yael Ehrlich)