In Exodus chapters 10–11, three more horrible plagues from God affect Egypt. Pharaoh hardens his heart twice, and finally relents only after the death of the firstborn. These are the last three ...

It was a house-swarming party. Residents of southeastern Mexico were left in shock after a biblical proportion of locusts swallowed the region’s skies, leading many — including local media — to evoke ...

It felt too prescient. Pesach approaching and the people huddled in their homes, hoping the destroyer would not enter (Exodus 12:23). From multiple directions they came, a mighty swarm of missiles and ...

The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a hairy, six-legged, doublejawed grasshopper whose behavior has been exasperation and puzzling mankind ever since his appearance in Exodus as one of the ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have recently unravelled a long-standing mystery documented in the Bible - the reason behind locusts forming massive, crop-destroying swarms. The team was ...

Locusts were sent as a plague in Egypt in order to convince Pharoah to free the Israelite slaves, according to Exodus 10:12-15. But locusts are not only a nasty pestilence. Although most insects are ...

“Exodus: Gods and Kings” sees Ridley Scott doing something he’s done a few times now: taking a familiar story and making it a modern epic. No one needed a new version of the Moses story, exactly, but ...

It was on a cool Tuesday afternoon that the residents of Sinanché, a small town in southeastern Mexico, first heard the hissing. Looking out their windows, the leaves of the fruit trees in their back ...