101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

Myths of the Heroes 207
Bible: And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt. (Exod. 10:22)
Papyrus: [The land] is not bright because of it.
Bible: And all the cattle of Egypt died. (Exod. 9:6)
Papyrus: Indeed, all animals, their hearts weep; cattle moan because of the state
of the land.
Bible: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die…. (Exod. 11:5)
Papyrus: Indeed men are few, and he who places his brother in the ground is
everywhere… Indeed [hearts] are violent, pestilence is throughout
the land, blood is everywhere, death is not lacking, and the mummycloth
speaks even before one comes near it.
Reading the two sets of passages side by side, one might conclude that Egypt in the
First Intermediate Period was not very different from Egypt during the ten plagues of
Moses. From a literary standpoint, the Bible and the “Admonitions” each described
Egypt under similar circumstances but in different time frames. To the extent that one
believed that the Hebrew god caused these bad times, one was inclined to let him take
the credit. But there was nothing miraculous about the conditions described, nor do
we have any evidence from Egyptian records that the firstborn child of each Egyptian
family died on one night. Such an event would not have gone unnoticed.